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Panzer ace : the memoirs of an iron cross panzer commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
- Title
- Panzer ace : the memoirs of an iron cross panzer commander from Barbarossa to Normandy / Richard Freiherr von Rosen ; foreword by Robert Forcyzk ; translated by Geoffrey Brooks.
- Author
- Rosen, Richard, Freiherr von
- Publication
- Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Greenhill Books, [2018]
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- Description
- xvi, 390 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a Company of Tigers at Kursk, later 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 armour 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 read and not technical, and adds very substantially to the knowledge of how the German Panzer Arm operated in the Second World War." --Publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Als panzeroffizier in ost und west. English
- Alternative Title
- Als panzeroffizier in ost und west.
- Memoirs of an iron cross panzer commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Note
- "Richard Freiher von Rosen's Als Panzeroffizier in Ost und West was first publlished by Flechsig Verlag, Germany."
- Language (note)
- In English; translated from the original German.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5954
- ISBN
- 9781784382667
- 1784382663
- OCLC
- 991339093
- Author
- Rosen, Richard, Freiherr von, author.
- Title
- Panzer ace : the memoirs of an iron cross panzer commander from Barbarossa to Normandy / Richard Freiherr von Rosen ; foreword by Robert Forcyzk ; translated by Geoffrey Brooks.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Greenhill Books, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English; translated from the original German.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Added Author
- Forczyk, Robert, writer of foreword.Brooks, Geoffrey, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5954