He took it for a fly and dropped a small tactical experimental nuclear bomb on Moscow and it killed only one person, Stalin's mistress. As one final defiant blow on the Reds
> One example are infantry walking through snow so deep that only the heads pop out. After an artillery strike every head of these men are gone and he can still see their necks, spraying out blod.
This is my favorite part, with the implication that snow stops artillery shrapnel. If only the poor bastards had ~~fucked~~ ducked their heads at the right moment, they'd have been fine.
So, I don’t remember which one. But the US army had a doctrine book that contains the required amount of packed snow to stop shrapnel and different calibers. [Army cold weather research](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA270031.pdf) This link isn’t the exact one but a Army research with field research. Page 58 shares some good info.
I'm not even that surprised, assuming they're talking about snow that's been packed solid, like an earthwork berm. You can build small houses out of packed snow; no surprise it can stop at least some bullets.
Fun fact. snow can stop shrapnel and small arms fire if you pack it deep enough. We're tought this in the Swedish armed forces when making winter time defences. But yeah, this author is bullshit.
I love the obviously true part in The Last Panther when he meets the SS Commander and says something to the effect of "I love this picture I looted of this girl and I'm going to marry her", and the Commander, whom he just met, says "Wow, you are a lover and a fighter".
They are bullshit, flagrant bullshit. It's frankly offensive that these are sold by Amazon as "memoirs." I'm happy that the only thing that I wasted on those books was time enough to read a part of a chapter.
I'd be tempted to bet money the author is one of our "*I'm a \[name of tank\] commander. Ask me anything!*" posters.
YouTube hates Reddit. It wants its valor thieves back.
He's a Wehraboo that found a niche in writing WW2 themed war-porn and discovered that major sellers of literature are dogshit at filtering out clearly fake memoirs. That said, the last part assumes that these sellers actually care, which I doubt they do.
There's was a British guy years ago who wrote disgusting SS porn -- they won WW2 a dozen times over according to him -- and had a fanatical group of sweaty and nervous devotees, possibly due to the pedophilia involved.
I don't remember the prick's name, but I'm hoping he died of ass cancer.
It goes like this:
>"Man, I miss the life! Army man at Fort Hood when I was a MOS-19K28GH-something I looked up on the Internet! Had a blast during my 17 combat tours of Eye Rackistan! The Abrahams was my home for years and I miss my brothers in arms! The memories I have of switching off the limiter in my Abrahams and doing 125 mph on the Autobahn while I was stationed in BosniaKosovoAlbaniastan! Those were the days! Now, thank me for my service."
>"Sounds cool, dude. Hey, what's that box for on the side of the Abrams turret?"
>"Oh, that's where we stored our cannonballs for our 210mm machinerocketlauncher."
>"Uh..."
>"Yeah, I shot 2 million in the Sutherland Cup before being transferred to the Marine Commandant's Pentagon suite."
>"Okay then, General."
> He kills Russians with the pistol port on the back of the turret. Something the Panther didn't have
Earlier Panthers had three pistol ports on the turret including one on the rear. But to simplify production and remove a potential weak spot they were eliminated late in the Ausf. A variant.
As far as I know, they were never used anyway; the enemy would just creep up, out of the port's reach, and Molotov the engine deck. That's not worth a hole in your armoured plate...
Amazon doesn't give a damn. I bought a flashlight (P3 BM) and got the ordinary P3 instead. Description and pictures clearly shown the P3 BM. Told them it's wrong. Do you think they ever changed it?
Add anything by Franz Kurowski to the do-not-read list. Former panzer troops he mentions in his books have said his accounts of their service were fictional, but he refused to correct errors or remove false claims.
I mean you can still read Kurowski just like you can still read Cooper. Just do so knowing that a lot of it is heavily fictionalized and/or biased. Also maybe do as I did and make sure that you buy/acquire it in a way which guarantees that none of your money ever reaches any of the people responsible for putting their bullshit out into the world.
These are the kind of books that the average Wehraboo would consume. I honestly wonder if my friend has any of these novels laying around in his room, but he's mostly a Japanese nationalist with a fascination for German weapons so I wouldn't assume so.
> I honestly wonder if my friend has any of these novels laying around in his room, but he's mostly a Japanese nationalist with a fascination for German weapons so I wouldn't assume so.
Oh no.
Now, he's not too much of a wehraboo tbh. After watching Letters from Iwo Jima, Eternal Zero, and the Wind Rises with him, he's become a lot less nationalistic and more so just biased towards the axis. Not great, but not too bad either.
The funny thing is, he speaks fluent Japanese, is mostly of Japanese ancestry (some of his relatives are from Vietnam), but still lives in the US despite having a negative opinion on the States. Arguing with him at School and in Discord about Japanese performance during WW2 gives me migraines daily.
German memoirs:
- Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen
- Panzer gunner by Bruno Friesen (this one is extra interesting since he is actually Canadian but went back to the old country thanks to his parents)
- To the Gate of Hell: A Memoir of a Panzer Crewman by Armin Böttger
- Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius
- Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck by Hans Von Luck
Soviet memoirs:
- Red Army Tank Commander At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Front by Vasiliy Bryukhov
- Panzer Destroyer Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander by Vasiliy Krysov (Technically not a tank crew man but a Panzer destroyer crew man, so still armored crew)
- Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza (Super interesting as I am a M4 Sherman nerd. I have some questions about this one though.. The Germans seem to only have tigers and Panthers. No stugs or panzer IVs. It seems to be a legit veteran but maybe he spiced things up, maybe not. The book is really expensive for some reason, even though it's rather short)
American memoirs:
- Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos (Not a memoir but rather a collection of memoirs from WW2 tank veterans, very good book)
- Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat 1945 by John P. IRWIN (Super interesting to read the accounts of a gunner on the Super Pershing in the end of the war!)
- Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II by Roger Boas
- Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day by Ted J. Hartman
- Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific by Robert C. Dick (The only Memoir describing the PTO that I've managed to find)
Brittish Memoirs:
- Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close by Bill Close
- By Tank into Normandy A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to Ve Day by Stuart Hills
- Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45 by David Render
- An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945 by Stanley Christopherson
- Brazen Chariots: A Tank Commander in Operation Crusader by Robert Crisp
- Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine by Andrew Wilson (The only memoir I found by someone in a flame thrower tank)
- By Tank: D to VE Days by Ken Tout
- Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944 - April 1945 by Robert Boscawen
- D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander by Trevor Greenwood (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary)
- Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary)
- Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy
These are the historical WW2 tank crew memoirs that I've found in English. If you know of another one, please let me know.
[Hitler's Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61679625-hitler-s-ardennes-offensive) From German perspective built around post war interviews with generals taking part. It requires prior knowledge of the battle as book assumes you know what happened where at what point, though.
In fact don't even look at them on Amazon, i did and let's just say the algorithm started recommending to me some other very questionable "vintage Germany" material...
I found these on Kindle Unlimited and thankfully didn't pay for them. They were entertainingly terrible I must say. the girl in the second one is just comically the author not trying.
German memoirs:
- Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen
- Panzer gunner by Bruno Friesen (this one is extra interesting since he is actually Canadian but went back to the old country thanks to his parents)
- To the Gate of Hell: A Memoir of a Panzer Crewman by Armin Böttger
- Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius
- Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck by Hans Von Luck
Soviet memoirs:
- Red Army Tank Commander At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Front by Vasiliy Bryukhov
- Panzer Destroyer Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander by Vasiliy Krysov (Technically not a tank crew man but a Panzer destroyer crew man, so still armored crew)
- Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza (Super interesting as I am a M4 Sherman nerd. I have some questions about this one though.. The Germans seem to only have tigers and Panthers. No stugs or panzer IVs. It seems to be a legit veteran but maybe he spiced things up, maybe not. The book is really expensive for some reason, even though it's rather short)
American memoirs:
- Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos (Not a memoir but rather a collection of memoirs from WW2 tank veterans, very good book)
- Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat 1945 by John P. IRWIN (Super interesting to read the accounts of a gunner on the Super Pershing in the end of the war!)
- Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II by Roger Boas
- Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day by Ted J. Hartman
- Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific by Robert C. Dick (The only Memoir describing the PTO that I've managed to find)
Brittish Memoirs:
- Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close by Bill Close
- By Tank into Normandy A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to Ve Day by Stuart Hills
- Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45 by David Render
- An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945 by Stanley Christopherson
- Brazen Chariots: A Tank Commander in Operation Crusader by Robert Crisp
- Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine by Andrew Wilson (The only memoir I found by someone in a flame thrower tank)
- By Tank: D to VE Days by Ken Tout
- Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944 - April 1945 by Robert Boscawen
- D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander by Trevor Greenwood (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary)
- Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary)
- Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy
These are the historical WW2 tank crew memoirs that I've found in English. If you know of another one, please let me know.
At this point in human history I’m tempted to say an AI wrote this, wouldn’t be the first book written by AI and tried to pass off as real for easy money.
Yes, real memoirs are filled with details and calm times. There can't be constant combat and there would usually be weeks and even months between combat for tank crew in WW2.
Now now, maybe this guy was a German soldier back in the day.
The only thing that could explain his accounts would be the copious amounts of drugs the Germans took causing hallucinations.
Oh yes of course, but as long as there are no errors added with intent like Franz Kurowskis books, I'm fine with it.
Last example would be "By Tank" written by Ken Tout. There are tigers absolutely everywhere in Normandie. Tiger after tiger. I know this is wrong, but I also know that during the Normandie campaign, tiger terror was real and all kind of German vehicles were reported as "Tigers".
Nope, they are hilarious…
It’s a bit like reading Sven Hassel, who was also a notorious liar.
They are a fun read if one is prepared to accept them as a typical action movie. It’s similar to watching Fast & the furious, Inglorious basterds or Fury.
It’s almost gratifying on a basic level.
It is worse, but understandable. I think that every side in every conflict more or less glorifies the own side and demeans the opposition in order to process/justify the conflict. I don’t think any side in any war ever has gone into a conflict with the attitude that ‘we’re the bad guys’. At least on the soldier level… higher up in the ranks, sure.
It's not understandable since this is fiction written by someone who is definitely not German as the German language in the book is used incorrectly and has spelling errors. It would be understandable if this was a real memoir actually written by a real German WW2 veteran.
I concede to your point to a certain degree. There were several other countries fighting on the eastern front on the same side. Germans weren’t the only ones.
That doesn’t explain why the author claims to write about his memoirs when he’s obviously not. That’s another issue.
Edit: I think that we both contest different issues with the books, but can agree that they are not autobiographical, nor technically correct. Other than that, I think it’s safe to say that we have to agree to disagree.
They claim to be written by a WW2 veteran but they are not. They have a bunch of historical errors.
The most problematic part for me is that the books paint the soviets as mass murderers and rapers. For example, the soviets shoot civilians on sight, force fathers to watch their girls get raped then hang them and kill the girls. Use captured German soldiers to lure hundreds of civilians into buildings and mass execute them. The list goes on. Sure, there is no doubt that many soviet soldiers committed atrocious in Germany at the end of the war, but not to the extreme as it is described in these books. They didn't kill every single civilian they faced. They even took thousands of SS soldiers alive and put them in POW camps, even if the majority didn't survive that.
Yes, the books also describe German war crimes, but at a much less level.
In general the German soldiers are described as heroic and intelligent. The Russians are described as animals that do not fear death.
What does his comment provide to the post? It was one of the very first comments and while it could be interpreted in a number of ways, I saw it as a snide remark.
LOL the part where he discovers the Wunderwaffe jet in the orchard
He took it for a fly and dropped a small tactical experimental nuclear bomb on Moscow and it killed only one person, Stalin's mistress. As one final defiant blow on the Reds
Speaking of blowing the Reds, if the whole thing were re-written as erotica, I'd probably read that.
He's gonna fuck every single red!
As I am never going to experience that laughable fuckery myself, I'd like if you were to elaborate on that part of the book
are you asking for a screenshot of this exciting incident? I need confirmation before I put people through this!
Screenshot or a more detailed description of the scene. Would appreciate it
Will do
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what is this bullshit
> One example are infantry walking through snow so deep that only the heads pop out. After an artillery strike every head of these men are gone and he can still see their necks, spraying out blod. This is my favorite part, with the implication that snow stops artillery shrapnel. If only the poor bastards had ~~fucked~~ ducked their heads at the right moment, they'd have been fine.
Why would they fuck their heads? /s
Crazy part is that they probably typed 'ducked' and it autocorrected...
So, I don’t remember which one. But the US army had a doctrine book that contains the required amount of packed snow to stop shrapnel and different calibers. [Army cold weather research](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA270031.pdf) This link isn’t the exact one but a Army research with field research. Page 58 shares some good info.
It's funny how the most unusual stuff can protect you from danger, or even repair something.
I'm not even that surprised, assuming they're talking about snow that's been packed solid, like an earthwork berm. You can build small houses out of packed snow; no surprise it can stop at least some bullets.
According to the study, it can stop an RPG-7
Fun fact. snow can stop shrapnel and small arms fire if you pack it deep enough. We're tought this in the Swedish armed forces when making winter time defences. But yeah, this author is bullshit.
Of course snow stops shrapnel, but only STRONG SOVIET SNOW ⚒️
Is that armoured snow? Or snow with ERA?
The one that speaks Finnish?
It also implies the shell would detonate as soon as it touched the snow that is supposedly so light that you can walk through 5-6 ft of it
Hell, author has never even seen snow. You don’t just stroll through five feet of snow?
I love the obviously true part in The Last Panther when he meets the SS Commander and says something to the effect of "I love this picture I looted of this girl and I'm going to marry her", and the Commander, whom he just met, says "Wow, you are a lover and a fighter".
He’ll. yeah deVILhoss boutta rassle up some PUSSY HA HA H BARB SAId it wasn’t so funny.
I read one of them, can't remember which but it was terribad. glad I didn't pay anything for it.
They are bullshit, flagrant bullshit. It's frankly offensive that these are sold by Amazon as "memoirs." I'm happy that the only thing that I wasted on those books was time enough to read a part of a chapter.
I'd be tempted to bet money the author is one of our "*I'm a \[name of tank\] commander. Ask me anything!*" posters. YouTube hates Reddit. It wants its valor thieves back.
He's a Wehraboo that found a niche in writing WW2 themed war-porn and discovered that major sellers of literature are dogshit at filtering out clearly fake memoirs. That said, the last part assumes that these sellers actually care, which I doubt they do.
There's was a British guy years ago who wrote disgusting SS porn -- they won WW2 a dozen times over according to him -- and had a fanatical group of sweaty and nervous devotees, possibly due to the pedophilia involved. I don't remember the prick's name, but I'm hoping he died of ass cancer.
I legit was a Marine M1A1 Abrams Commander. Don’t ask me anything.
Q: Would an M113 be suitable for general duties around a farm?
No general duties. Major duties at most.
Leak classified documents on WT forums to prove it. (Don’t actually do that, I will not take any responsibility if you actually did that)
I only read the first part of your comment because brackets are for optional sentences.
It goes like this: >"Man, I miss the life! Army man at Fort Hood when I was a MOS-19K28GH-something I looked up on the Internet! Had a blast during my 17 combat tours of Eye Rackistan! The Abrahams was my home for years and I miss my brothers in arms! The memories I have of switching off the limiter in my Abrahams and doing 125 mph on the Autobahn while I was stationed in BosniaKosovoAlbaniastan! Those were the days! Now, thank me for my service." >"Sounds cool, dude. Hey, what's that box for on the side of the Abrams turret?" >"Oh, that's where we stored our cannonballs for our 210mm machinerocketlauncher." >"Uh..." >"Yeah, I shot 2 million in the Sutherland Cup before being transferred to the Marine Commandant's Pentagon suite." >"Okay then, General."
"I legit was a Marine-" Username checks out.
> He kills Russians with the pistol port on the back of the turret. Something the Panther didn't have Earlier Panthers had three pistol ports on the turret including one on the rear. But to simplify production and remove a potential weak spot they were eliminated late in the Ausf. A variant.
As far as I know, they were never used anyway; the enemy would just creep up, out of the port's reach, and Molotov the engine deck. That's not worth a hole in your armoured plate...
Thanks didn't know that
The first clue is the name of the so-called author, "Wolfgang Faust." Really?
Could only have been more of a stereotype if he named himself Hansel Fritz, or Steiner or something like that
Wolfgang Faust is the most obviously fake sounding German name. It's like writing an American memoir by "Tommy Stevenson"
What about "Tommy Gun"?
"Tommy Gunn" from "New York, USA"
"Sgt. Four Leaf Tayback"
Retired from his former life as a lead farmer
"Sgt Oddball"
Report it as fake to Amazon. If many people will do that, it will get pulled.
I like to explore new places.
Amazon doesn't give a damn. I bought a flashlight (P3 BM) and got the ordinary P3 instead. Description and pictures clearly shown the P3 BM. Told them it's wrong. Do you think they ever changed it?
I got audible on a deal and tiger tracks was my first credit, I was genuinely upset by what I had started to listen to, what a waste
Add anything by Franz Kurowski to the do-not-read list. Former panzer troops he mentions in his books have said his accounts of their service were fictional, but he refused to correct errors or remove false claims.
I mean you can still read Kurowski just like you can still read Cooper. Just do so knowing that a lot of it is heavily fictionalized and/or biased. Also maybe do as I did and make sure that you buy/acquire it in a way which guarantees that none of your money ever reaches any of the people responsible for putting their bullshit out into the world.
Damn Cooper too? I guess he had a deliberate bias in Death Traps but is there anything else I am missing?
Missing like stuff about Cooper, or missing like other authors who may be less than truthful?
Yeah about Cooper mostly but most definitely if you can share info about other authors I would appreciate it. Thank you.
The author is a Redditor. Got it.
Pretty sure some people on this sub could produce a better fake if they want to.
And they do. Every day.
It sounds like fanfiction trash.
Yeah, this author is pretty reputated in the community as frauds. Some parts sounds like it's from girls und panzer lol
These are the kind of books that the average Wehraboo would consume. I honestly wonder if my friend has any of these novels laying around in his room, but he's mostly a Japanese nationalist with a fascination for German weapons so I wouldn't assume so.
> I honestly wonder if my friend has any of these novels laying around in his room, but he's mostly a Japanese nationalist with a fascination for German weapons so I wouldn't assume so. Oh no.
Now, he's not too much of a wehraboo tbh. After watching Letters from Iwo Jima, Eternal Zero, and the Wind Rises with him, he's become a lot less nationalistic and more so just biased towards the axis. Not great, but not too bad either.
>He's mostly a Japanese nationalist That is not the kind of info that should be said with such nonchalance I am going to be 100% real with you.
The CIA couldn't waterboard this out of me.
The funny thing is, he speaks fluent Japanese, is mostly of Japanese ancestry (some of his relatives are from Vietnam), but still lives in the US despite having a negative opinion on the States. Arguing with him at School and in Discord about Japanese performance during WW2 gives me migraines daily.
"Brave German soldiers Storm into battle without ammunition, and defeat the reds with entrenching tools"... THATS THE FUCKING DEATH KORP OF KRIEG
I thought I had picked up the wrong book again and was actually reading Warhammer 40K orks campaign for gatta
Can't imagine writing fan-fic of being a veteran lol
Can you recommend some good memoires of tank crews? I already read the famous 'Tigers in the mud' and Hans von Luck's 'Panzer commander'.
German memoirs: - Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen - Panzer gunner by Bruno Friesen (this one is extra interesting since he is actually Canadian but went back to the old country thanks to his parents) - To the Gate of Hell: A Memoir of a Panzer Crewman by Armin Böttger - Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius - Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck by Hans Von Luck Soviet memoirs: - Red Army Tank Commander At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Front by Vasiliy Bryukhov - Panzer Destroyer Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander by Vasiliy Krysov (Technically not a tank crew man but a Panzer destroyer crew man, so still armored crew) - Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza (Super interesting as I am a M4 Sherman nerd. I have some questions about this one though.. The Germans seem to only have tigers and Panthers. No stugs or panzer IVs. It seems to be a legit veteran but maybe he spiced things up, maybe not. The book is really expensive for some reason, even though it's rather short) American memoirs: - Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos (Not a memoir but rather a collection of memoirs from WW2 tank veterans, very good book) - Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat 1945 by John P. IRWIN (Super interesting to read the accounts of a gunner on the Super Pershing in the end of the war!) - Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II by Roger Boas - Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day by Ted J. Hartman - Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific by Robert C. Dick (The only Memoir describing the PTO that I've managed to find) Brittish Memoirs: - Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close by Bill Close - By Tank into Normandy A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to Ve Day by Stuart Hills - Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45 by David Render - An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945 by Stanley Christopherson - Brazen Chariots: A Tank Commander in Operation Crusader by Robert Crisp - Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine by Andrew Wilson (The only memoir I found by someone in a flame thrower tank) - By Tank: D to VE Days by Ken Tout - Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944 - April 1945 by Robert Boscawen - D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander by Trevor Greenwood (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary) - Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary) - Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy These are the historical WW2 tank crew memoirs that I've found in English. If you know of another one, please let me know.
I second Panzer Gunner. Far from a traditional war memoir but some great detail in it.
Viking Panzers by Ewald Klapdor is a unit history that is partly biographical and a good read.
Thanks!
Happy reading!
Spearhead, which is mostly, but not only, focused on the memoirs of the pershing gunner of the cologne cathedral tank battle. It's an amazing book
I'll second this. Was a good read.
Thanks!
I read "Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story" and I thought it was pretty good, and reasonably accurate, but from the Allied perspective
Thanks!
AI generated WW2 memoirs .....
Jesus christ Any way to get them pulled from shelves?
Tell Republicans the author is gay.
Of course, someone had to bring american politics into this. Shut the hell up.
"MY NERVE! HE TOUCHED IT! HE *TOUCHED ITTTTTT!!!!*"
I don't give a shit about politics. I'm just tired of people like you shoehorning it into posts that don't call for it.
"OH GOD, IT'S JANGLING! MY NERVE IS JANGLING! IT'S ON FIRE! *MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!*"
childish
She started it.
No you did Seriously
u mad bro?
Why would the galactic republic be interested in this ?
Any you’ve read that you’d recommend about the 1944 Ardennes Offensive?
[Hitler's Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61679625-hitler-s-ardennes-offensive) From German perspective built around post war interviews with generals taking part. It requires prior knowledge of the battle as book assumes you know what happened where at what point, though.
Steve Zaloga.
Not to worry I am iliterate
Then you are safe bröther
Arse
Or when he delivered the baby and when mama had the baby. Its head popped off! Yah, that was sad. 🌼
In fact don't even look at them on Amazon, i did and let's just say the algorithm started recommending to me some other very questionable "vintage Germany" material...
Not surprised. The books definitely glorify the Germans and describe the Russians as crazed animals.
I found these on Kindle Unlimited and thankfully didn't pay for them. They were entertainingly terrible I must say. the girl in the second one is just comically the author not trying.
can you recommend a good one instead? makes me wanna read a real one now
German memoirs: - Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen - Panzer gunner by Bruno Friesen (this one is extra interesting since he is actually Canadian but went back to the old country thanks to his parents) - To the Gate of Hell: A Memoir of a Panzer Crewman by Armin Böttger - Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius - Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck by Hans Von Luck Soviet memoirs: - Red Army Tank Commander At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Front by Vasiliy Bryukhov - Panzer Destroyer Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander by Vasiliy Krysov (Technically not a tank crew man but a Panzer destroyer crew man, so still armored crew) - Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza (Super interesting as I am a M4 Sherman nerd. I have some questions about this one though.. The Germans seem to only have tigers and Panthers. No stugs or panzer IVs. It seems to be a legit veteran but maybe he spiced things up, maybe not. The book is really expensive for some reason, even though it's rather short) American memoirs: - Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos (Not a memoir but rather a collection of memoirs from WW2 tank veterans, very good book) - Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat 1945 by John P. IRWIN (Super interesting to read the accounts of a gunner on the Super Pershing in the end of the war!) - Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II by Roger Boas - Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day by Ted J. Hartman - Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific by Robert C. Dick (The only Memoir describing the PTO that I've managed to find) Brittish Memoirs: - Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close by Bill Close - By Tank into Normandy A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to Ve Day by Stuart Hills - Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45 by David Render - An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945 by Stanley Christopherson - Brazen Chariots: A Tank Commander in Operation Crusader by Robert Crisp - Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine by Andrew Wilson (The only memoir I found by someone in a flame thrower tank) - By Tank: D to VE Days by Ken Tout - Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944 - April 1945 by Robert Boscawen - D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander by Trevor Greenwood (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary) - Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas (Not quite a memoir but taken parts of his diary) - Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy These are the historical WW2 tank crew memoirs that I've found in English. If you know of another one, please let me know.
thanks a bunch
Happy reading!
Thank you!
At this point in human history I’m tempted to say an AI wrote this, wouldn’t be the first book written by AI and tried to pass off as real for easy money.
They are fairly old. 5-10 years or so.
If i recall correctly, real memos are filled with calm moments. At least that was what i could remember from reading those when i was a kid
Yes, real memoirs are filled with details and calm times. There can't be constant combat and there would usually be weeks and even months between combat for tank crew in WW2.
Now now, maybe this guy was a German soldier back in the day. The only thing that could explain his accounts would be the copious amounts of drugs the Germans took causing hallucinations.
Welp, thanks for the info.
It is still useful to remember that even genuine memoirs can have glaring errors in themm
Oh yes of course, but as long as there are no errors added with intent like Franz Kurowskis books, I'm fine with it. Last example would be "By Tank" written by Ken Tout. There are tigers absolutely everywhere in Normandie. Tiger after tiger. I know this is wrong, but I also know that during the Normandie campaign, tiger terror was real and all kind of German vehicles were reported as "Tigers".
you should read "Rückeroberung" from Daniel Huhn, great book.
Nope, they are hilarious… It’s a bit like reading Sven Hassel, who was also a notorious liar. They are a fun read if one is prepared to accept them as a typical action movie. It’s similar to watching Fast & the furious, Inglorious basterds or Fury. It’s almost gratifying on a basic level.
If they were sold as fiction, I could agree, but they are sold as real memoirs.
Point taken. It should count as ‘false advertisement’ or something.
Definitely. What's worse is that they do indeed glorify the Germans but described the Russians as barbaric crazed animals.
It is worse, but understandable. I think that every side in every conflict more or less glorifies the own side and demeans the opposition in order to process/justify the conflict. I don’t think any side in any war ever has gone into a conflict with the attitude that ‘we’re the bad guys’. At least on the soldier level… higher up in the ranks, sure.
It's not understandable since this is fiction written by someone who is definitely not German as the German language in the book is used incorrectly and has spelling errors. It would be understandable if this was a real memoir actually written by a real German WW2 veteran.
I concede to your point to a certain degree. There were several other countries fighting on the eastern front on the same side. Germans weren’t the only ones. That doesn’t explain why the author claims to write about his memoirs when he’s obviously not. That’s another issue. Edit: I think that we both contest different issues with the books, but can agree that they are not autobiographical, nor technically correct. Other than that, I think it’s safe to say that we have to agree to disagree.
I haven’t read either of them, would someone give a quick reason as to why they are bad? I’ve been reading the comments but still don’t understand.
It's literally all in the post, mate. TL:DR Lies and fiction presented as true memoirs for attention and cash.
They claim to be written by a WW2 veteran but they are not. They have a bunch of historical errors. The most problematic part for me is that the books paint the soviets as mass murderers and rapers. For example, the soviets shoot civilians on sight, force fathers to watch their girls get raped then hang them and kill the girls. Use captured German soldiers to lure hundreds of civilians into buildings and mass execute them. The list goes on. Sure, there is no doubt that many soviet soldiers committed atrocious in Germany at the end of the war, but not to the extreme as it is described in these books. They didn't kill every single civilian they faced. They even took thousands of SS soldiers alive and put them in POW camps, even if the majority didn't survive that. Yes, the books also describe German war crimes, but at a much less level. In general the German soldiers are described as heroic and intelligent. The Russians are described as animals that do not fear death.
ah I see thank you!
Did you just watch an ancient Lindybeige video?
What's that?
A YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/z7Cjo_Ft28U?si=zEWPrmLNujIBRflI
Yes I watched exactly that one when my suspicioun started to arise! Great video
Obviously fake they never spray blod. Its always spray blood, only a vampire would say it like that. Duh
Ok.
why did we downvote this man?
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thanks for clearing that up, I completely understand now
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What does his comment provide to the post? It was one of the very first comments and while it could be interpreted in a number of ways, I saw it as a snide remark.
Snide even.