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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
This unique memoir tells the story of one of the field-grade officers whose martial skills sustained the Third Reich against a world in arms. Von Luck fought in the Wehrmacht's armored forces for six years in Europe, Russia, and North Africa; then spent five years in a Russian labor camp. His narrative is as free from cant as it is from braggadocio and false modesty. It presents a soldier, a warrior, and a leader who never failed his men, and whose courage never faltered. It also portrays someone whose comprehensive lack of insight into the nature of the regime he served will be difficult for many readers to credit. Yet von Luck's sincerity is apparent; and his was a mind-set too widespread in Germany to be dismissed as mere self-exculpation. Failure to understand it leaves the Nazi years a mystery. Recommended for collections in this area, especially as a counterpoint to Sieg Heil!: War Letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-1941 ( LJ 9/1/87), whose narrator served in the same division as von Luck on the Russian front.
- Dennis Showalter, Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"For sheer breadth of recorded experience, no soldier's memoir can match it."
--Military History Quarterly

"One of the more valuable World War II memoirs...an exceptional volume."
--Booklist

"A soldier, a warrior, and a leader who never failed his men, and whose courage never faltered."
--LibraryJournal

"The ultimate professional soldier...a personal history that may provide guideposts for the future."
--Topeka Capital-Journal

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I come from an old military family whose roots can be traced back into the thirteenth century. Read the first page

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North Africa, Knight's Cross, Africa Army, Afrika Korps, Jupp Link, Maginot Line, Panzer Grenadier Division, First World War, Major Kurz, General Gause, Operation Goodwood, East Prussia, Major Becker, Western Wall, General Feuchtinger, Royal Dragoons, Western Allies, Long Range Desert Group, New Year's Eve, Bad Kissingen, Bir Hacheim, Cape Bon Peninsula, Colonel von Luck, East Germany, Erich Beck

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