EPISODE · Jun 19, 2018 · 5 MIN
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen
from Discover Complete Audiobook Titles Instantly Online · host Joelle Cormier
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy Author: Richard Freiherr Von Rosen Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he 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. His account is easy to listen to and not technical, and adds substantially to the knowledge of how the German Panzer Arm operated in the Second World War.
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