Book : Panzer Commander The Memoirs Of Colonel Hans Von Luck

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Review For sheer breadth of recorded experience, no soldiers memoir can match it.--Military History QuarterlyOne of the more valuable World War II memoirs...an exceptional volume.--BooklistA soldier, a warrior, and a leader who never failed his men, and whose courage never faltered.--LibraryJournalThe ultimate professional soldier...a personal history that may provide guideposts for the future.--Topeka Capital-Journal A stunning look at World War II from the other side...From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommels 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the disastrous Russian front--von Luck fought there with some of the best soldiers in the world. German soldiers.Awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knights Cross, von Luck writes as an officer and a gentleman. Told with the vivid detail of an impassioned eyewitness, his rare and moving memoir has become a classic in the literature of World War II, a first-person chronicle of the glory--and the inevitable tragedy--of a superb soldier fighting Hitlers war. From the Inside Flap A stunning look at World War II from the other side...From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommels 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the disastrous Russian front--von Luck fought there with some of the best soldiers in the world. German soldiers.Awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knights Cross, von Luck writes as an officer and a gentleman. Told with the vivid detail of an impassioned eyewitness, his rare and moving memoir has become a classic in the literature of World War II, a first-person chronicle of the glory--and the inevitable tragedy--of a superb soldier fighting Hitlers war. From the Back Cover A stunning look at World War II from the other side... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommels 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the disastrous Russian front--von Luck fought there with some of the best soldiers in the world. German soldiers. Awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knights Cross, von Luck writes as an officer and a gentleman. Told with the vivid detail of an impassioned eyewitness, his rare and moving memoir has become a classic in the literature of World War II, a first-person chronicle of the glory--and the inevitable tragedy--of a superb soldier fighting Hitlers war. About the Author Hans von Luck was born in 1911 in Flensburg, Germany, the son of a naval officer. Although he would have preferred to study law, he followed the path of duty and in 1929 entered the Reichswehr as a cadet officer. In 1939 his motorized unit was one of the first to cross the frontier into Poland, marking the start of World War II. Thereafter he was constantly in action in every major theatre of war. He was wounded twice and received two of his countrys highest awards for gallantry, the German Cross in Gold and the Knights Cross. He ended the war a full colonel, one of the youngest in the German army. He is married, for the second time, and has three sons. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PrologueRELEASEIt was a cold winters day at the end of 1949 in a special camp for prisoners of war in the neighborhood of Kiev; at two oclock in the morning a barrack door flew open.Ganz von Luck, shouted a Russian guard. Davai, to the office.I still have to smile: the Russians cannot pronounce the H sound. How amused we had been a few years earlier when at the shout of Goggenloge no one had stirred. Intended was Prince Hohenlohe.We German prisoners of war had been in Russia since June 1945; since the late autumn of 1948, former members of the SS and the police, and also all those who had fought against partisans