Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Tiger Tracks
- The Classic Panzer Memoir
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Tiger Tracks
Buy Now for £14.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir is his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage.
Depicting a running tank engagement lasting 72 hours, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of Western Russia against the full might of the Red Army: the T34s, the Stalin tanks, the Sturmovik bombers, and the feared Katyusha rocket brigades. His astonishing testimony reveals the merciless decisions that panzer crews made in action, the devastating power of their weaponry, and the many ways that men met their deaths in the snow and ice of the Ostfront.
First published in the late 1940s, this memoir's savage realism shocked the postwar German public. Some were outraged at the book's final scenes while others wrote that "now, at last, I know what our men did in the East".
Today it stands as one of the great semiautobiographical accounts of warfare in World War II - a crescendo of horror, grim survival, and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man's destiny.
Originally published in the German Federal Republic as Panzerdammerung (Panzer Twilight).
The only other surviving memoir by this author is The Last Panther - an astonishing account of panzer warfare in the final hours of the Third Reich.
More from the same
What listeners say about Tiger Tracks
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 18-12-18
Entertaining
As with all Wolfgang's books if your looking for 100% history this isn't for you. these are good entertaining books with 70% fiction.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Mark H
- 25-03-24
Tiger Tracks
Brilliant true story with the mighty Tiger tank on the hell of the Russia front, you can smell the death and destruction as the story unfolds
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 30-01-21
Cracking - unglossed, gritty and riveting
Cracking. The account of just two days action in 1943 of a Tiger advance and then withdrawal. Written using the language and mores of the day (so best avoided if easily offended), I listened to this bloody, gritty account all in one go.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- george applegate jnr
- 05-04-21
intestine book on the capability of the togert MK1
intestine book on the capability of the togert MK1. easy speaker and nicely read. it sort of tailed off quickly towards the end.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Jayceon1888
- 13-06-18
Not sure about facts but still a great listen if you want to hear about the eastern front in ww2
I have looked up Wolfgang Faust and found out it is a made up name..... and the book claims to be factual. I think it is a bit of both, I believe this was written by a panzer driver on the eastern front in world war 2 but some of the things in this book are a little hard to believe. Apart from that a do believe it is the best depiction of the brutality of the fighting on the eastern front and for that reason I give this book 5 stars, also Tiger Tracks slaughter of the Riech by the same author is also a great book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Morag Bocking
- 12-02-21
Loved it
I have listened to it 3 times back to back
And I fully recommend it
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Alex
- 30-11-20
very interesting point of view
This showed me a side of the war I knew little about and getting it literally from the drivers seat was fantastic.
If you are interested in ww2 and tanks from that era this is for you.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 20-04-21
incredibly real
well written an incredible story and amazing detail it's like a fast paced movie this guy was so lucky to survive
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- qwerty
- 29-03-17
Boy's Own adventure with extra offal
Clearly a story in the style of Sven Hessle et al. Absorbing but for a few inaccuracies. A good listen.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Steve Harris
- 01-04-22
Gripping, yet horrifying
The narration takes you into a brutal and desperate world, that of the Russian front. The fighting was merciless and the writing is graphic enough to horrify.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!