Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... The Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945 (edizione 2015)di Sprech Media
Informazioni sull'operaThe Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945 di Wolfgang Faust
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
While the Battle of Berlin in 1945 is widely known, the horrific story of the Halbe Kessel remains largely untold. In April 1945, victorious Soviet forces encircled 80,000 men of the German 9th Army in the Halbe area, South of Berlin, together with many thousands of German women and children. The German troops, desperate to avoid Soviet capture, battled furiously to break out toward the West, where they could surrender to the comparative safety of the Americans. For the German civilians trapped in the Kessel, the quest to escape took on frantic dimensions, as the terror of Red Army brutality spread. The small town of Halbe became the eye of the hurricane for the breakout, as King Tigers of the SS Panzer Corps led the spearhead to the West, supported by Panthers of the battle-hardened 21st Panzer Division. Panzer by panzer, unit by unit, the breakout forces were cut down - until only a handful of Panthers, other armour, battered infantry units and columns of shattered refugees made a final escape through the rings of fire to the American lines. This first-hand account by the commander of one of those Panther tanks relates with devastating clarity the conditions inside the Kessel, the ferocity of the breakout attempt through Halbe, and the subsequent running battles between overwhelming Soviet forces and the exhausted Reich troops, who were using their last reserves of fuel, ammunition, strength and hope. Eloquent German-perspective accounts of World War 2 are surprisingly rare, and the recent reissue of Wolfgang Faust's 1948 memoir Tiger Tracks has fascinated readers around the world with its insight into the Eastern Front. In The Last Panther, Faust used his unique knowledge of tank warfare to describe the final collapse of the Third Reich and the murderous combat between the German and Russian armies. He gives us a shocking testament to the cataclysmic final hours of the Reich, and the horrors of this last eruption of violence among the idyllic forests and meadows of Germany. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IIVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
The basic facts of the story are verifiable. There was a German army of 80,000 men that was surrounded by units of the Russian army. There was no love lost between the Germans and the Russians. Germans army units had committed atrocities during their invasion of Russia. The Russians actively sought revenge for those atrocities.
Evidence for calling this fiction comes from the lack of details. The names of German units are not listed. The names of tank crew members are stated. Specific names of towns are missing. Names people that a memoir should have are missing. I believe if he had seen officers killed by enlisted men he would have at least remembered the names and ranks of the officers. Finally the ending of the book reads like a work of fiction. Some of the lack of detail could be attributed to the author's memory or his desire to protect individuals. In any case whether this is a work fiction or non fiction it is well written.
( )