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  • The Classic Panzer Memoir
  • By: Wolfgang Faust
  • Narrated by: George Backman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (101 ratings)

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Tiger Tracks

By: Wolfgang Faust
Narrated by: George Backman
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Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir is his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage.

Depicting a running tank engagement lasting 72 hours, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of Western Russia against the full might of the Red Army: the T34s, the Stalin tanks, the Sturmovik bombers, and the feared Katyusha rocket brigades. His 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.

First published in the late 1940s, this memoir's savage realism shocked the postwar German public. Some were outraged at the book's final scenes while others wrote that "now, at last, I know what our men did in the East".

Today it stands as one of the great semiautobiographical accounts of warfare in World War II - a crescendo of horror, grim survival, and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man's destiny.

Originally published in the German Federal Republic as Panzerdammerung (Panzer Twilight).

The only other surviving memoir by this author is The Last Panther - an astonishing account of panzer warfare in the final hours of the Third Reich.

©2015 The Estate of Wolfgang Faust; Bayern Classic Publications (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Great book.

One of the best accounts of war I have either read or listened to; comparable to Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. Authentic style with a gritty blow by blow commentary of a German Tiger crewman fighting against the odds. The only down side is I wanted the story to keep going to find out what happens between the end of this book and the start of the following book; The Last Panther. Well recommended to anyone interested in a factual insight intoWW11 from the German perspective, armoured vehicles or military history enthusiasts.

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fantastic

think of that tank movie Fury but much better and more realistic. well highlights the incredible struggle on the eastern front, with great detail and description. I highly recommend.

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Full of action

Very enjoyable. Took a little while to become hooked as a plot gradually starts to develop and the characters grow on you and become likeable. Lots of violence and vehicle vs vehicle duels to the death. Not sure if its a true account. At times felt as though Mathew Reiley wrote this after watching Cross of Iron.

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reality versus fiction

Some spoilers...

There's a mystery red head female Russian and a bunch of bad boy SS who are carting around a shitload of cigarettes and red wine... plenty of decapitation, execution, blood, guts and rape...

It's not a memoir

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epic story of the apocalyptic battles in Russia

heat breaking account of a short period in the life of a panzer soldier in the second world war. Still very relevant to the modern world.

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Brought the horror of war to life

Superb story, made you feel like you were on the Eastern front experiencing the chaos and confusion of the German retreat from Russia.

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Fantasy

In "Chapter 2" it was historically inaccurate, basically from the start on.
The style of reading had an odd emotional tone that was more appropriate for teenages to listen to.

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Questionable historical accuracy

While I did enjoy Panzer Tracks I had a growing suspicion while listening that this was not a genuine non fictional account of the eastern front. Some googling showed me that I was not alone in this suspicion. There is apparently no record of an original German version of this book and there seem to be factual inaccuracies. The awesomely named Wolfgang Faust probably never existed. On the other hand there are lots of ‘splosions and there is plenty of action.

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Historically inaccurate fiction

numerous historical and physical impossibilities make it difficult to enjoy this as a work of non fiction, or as a memoir as this book is advertised as. The story is okay, the voice performance is excellent.

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Highly recommended good author and narrator

Another Excellent story from Wolfgang Faust. You can feel the intensity and brutality of the war in the east. Well narrated.

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