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Panzer Ace

The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

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Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a company of Tigers at Kursk. Later he led a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group (12 King Tigers and a flak company) against the Russians in Hungary in the rank of junior, later senior lieutenant (from November 1944, his final rank). Only 489 of these King Tiger tanks were ever built. They were the most powerful heavy tanks to see service, and only one kind of shell could penetrate their armor at a reasonable distance. Every effort had to be made to retrieve any of them bogged down or otherwise immobilized, which led to many towing adventures.

The author has a fine memory and eye for detail. His account is easy to listen to and not technical, and adds substantially to the knowledge of how the German Panzer Arm operated in the Second World War.

©2017 Verlagshaus Würzburg GmbH & Co. KG; English language translation copyright 2018 by Greenhill Books; Robert Forczyk foreword copyright 2018 by Greenhill Books (P)2018 Tantor Europe Germany Military Military & War World War II War Veteran Memoir Russia Thought-Provoking Imperialism Royalty Solider
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lively account of the real life for a German tank commander in hard fought battles an unvarnished tale of terror and terrible times but told without emotion giving a really clear view from the German side

Your there with him in the Commanders seat

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Germans are not good at writing war recollections as they read like a computer program but this isn’t too bad. Worth the time to listen.

A good story

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So rare that the narration adds to the content but this is a marvellous account of a very brave and good man.

Superb

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Gripping account of a panzer soldier who worked his way up the ranks serving in Russia and Normandy and an account after the war great listen a must for ww2 fan !

Gripping

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Amazing book and incredibly interesting, nice to see the view of the war from a German soldiers perspective, Slow start during his training years but after that brilliant

Amazing

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