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• Tiger Tracks - One of the great semi-autobiographical

  

  Oxfam bookshop knutsford wolfgang faust was the driver of a tiger i tank with the wehrmacht heavy panzer battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the eastern front infirst published in the late s, this memoir's savage realism shocked the post-war german publicsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefaust describes how his tiger unit fought pitch battles in the snows of western russia against the full might of the red army: the t34s, stalin tanks, sturmovik bombers and the feared katyusha rocket brigadesthis memoir was his brutal and deeply personal account of the russian front's appalling carnage' today it stands as one of the great semi-autobiographical accounts of warfare in world war 2: a crescendo of horror, grom survival and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man's destinysome readers were outraged at the book's final scenes, while others wrote, 'now, at last, i know what our men did in the easthis astonishing testimony reveals the merciless decisions that panzer crews made in action, the devastating power of their weaponry and the many ways that men met their deaths in the snow and ice of the ostfront

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