A richly illustrated memoir by highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier -- "recommended to anyone with an interest in the Panzerwaffe in the Second World War" (Recollections of WWII).

After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, Richard Freiherr von Rosen led a Company of Tigers at Kursk. Later he led 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 armor 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. Easy to read and not technical, his account adds substantially to the knowledge of how the German Panzer Arm operated in the Second World War.

"The author has a fine memory and eye for detail... It adds substantially to the knowledge of how the German Panzer Arm operated during the Second World War." -- Military Vehicles Magazine

"The images accompany the story well. Richard Von Rosen, wounded several times and fighting a good part of the war on the eastern front, was certainly a lucky soldier, and we are also lucky to read these pages... highly recommend to all fans of memories of the Second World War." -- Old Barbed Wire Blog

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