Panzerjager: Tank Hunter

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Название: Panzerjager: Tank Hunter

Издательство: Burd Street

Автор: William B. Folkestad

ISBN: 1572491825

Год: 2000

Формат: pdf

Размер: 4,25 Mb

Кол-во страниц: 130

Язык: English

This slim volume is the as-told-to memoirs of German World War II veteran Averbeck, who served three years with Wehrmacht antitank units, receiving three medals and two wounds, all before his twenty-first birthday. They leave us wanting more about the special technical and tactical aspects of the German tank-hunters' war, for Germany's antitank efforts were a very large factor in the Wehrmacht's prolonged resistance to overwhelming odds. Still, they afford an enjoyable, somewhat naive, but probably honest self-portrait of a young man going through the greatest mincing machine in the history of modern war, enjoying good luck when it came his way, missing lost comrades, scrounging minor luxuries, and emerging as anything but a "willing executioner" for anybody. This is not the best eastern front World War II memoir, yet it usefully adds to the literature at a time when veterans on both sides of that nightmare are rapidly diminishing in number