Name: Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander, 1938–1943
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Author: Schäfer, Robin ; Moorhouse, Roger
ISBN: 9781784388300

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Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander, 1938–1943

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Schäfer

Preface by

Roger Moorhouse

Publisher

Greenhill Books

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.0 x 16.4 x 3.4 cm

Weight

1.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781784388300

Synopsis "Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander, 1938–1943 "

'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the rear. But that isn't a good idea when facing tank-men like us... floor the accelerator! Turn left and run over him!'The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed first-hand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment. This regiment made up the core of the 6th Panzer-Division, one of Hitler's top armored formations, which was involved in most of the major campaigns on the Eastern Front; campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa and Operation Winter Storm.Sander recorded his experience of these campaigns in astounding detail in some recently-discovered diaries covering the period from April 1938 to December 1943, translated here for the first time by historian Robin Schäfer. Written during the fighting, these diaries not only offer an honest assessment of the war on the Eastern Front, but also provide an insight into the mind of a young and highly politicized officer, and offer an intimate glimpse into the close-knit community of a German Panzer crew.A brutally honest, immediate and unfiltered personal account, Sander's translated diaries make for some uniquely fascinating reading about some of the most important campaigns of the Second World War. Supported by more than 100 photographs and maps from the period, Blood, Dust & Snow will be of great interest not only to readers studying the war on the Eastern Front, but also to any historian researching the Second World War.

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