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  • Tiger Tracks

  • The Classic Panzer Memoir
  • By: Wolfgang Faust
  • Narrated by: George Backman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (247 ratings)

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Tiger Tracks

By: Wolfgang Faust
Narrated by: George Backman
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Summary

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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Tiger Tracks

Brilliant true story with the mighty Tiger tank on the hell of the Russia front, you can smell the death and destruction as the story unfolds

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Entertaining

As with all Wolfgang's books if your looking for 100% history this isn't for you. these are good entertaining books with 70% fiction.

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Cracking - unglossed, gritty and riveting

Cracking. The account of just two days action in 1943 of a Tiger advance and then withdrawal. Written using the language and mores of the day (so best avoided if easily offended), I listened to this bloody, gritty account all in one go.

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intestine book on the capability of the togert MK1

intestine book on the capability of the togert MK1. easy speaker and nicely read. it sort of tailed off quickly towards the end.

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Not sure about facts but still a great listen if you want to hear about the eastern front in ww2

I have looked up Wolfgang Faust and found out it is a made up name..... and the book claims to be factual. I think it is a bit of both, I believe this was written by a panzer driver on the eastern front in world war 2 but some of the things in this book are a little hard to believe. Apart from that a do believe it is the best depiction of the brutality of the fighting on the eastern front and for that reason I give this book 5 stars, also Tiger Tracks slaughter of the Riech by the same author is also a great book.

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Loved it

I have listened to it 3 times back to back
And I fully recommend it

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very interesting point of view

This showed me a side of the war I knew little about and getting it literally from the drivers seat was fantastic.

If you are interested in ww2 and tanks from that era this is for you.

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incredibly real

well written an incredible story and amazing detail it's like a fast paced movie this guy was so lucky to survive

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Boy's Own adventure with extra offal

Clearly a story in the style of Sven Hessle et al. Absorbing but for a few inaccuracies. A good listen.

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Gripping, yet horrifying

The narration takes you into a brutal and desperate world, that of the Russian front. The fighting was merciless and the writing is graphic enough to horrify.

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