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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 was 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, Stalin tanks, 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 post-war German public. Some readers 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 semi-autobiographical accounts of warfare in World War 2: a crescendo of horror, grim survival and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man’s destiny.
“Among the most impressive narratives of the Eastern Front that I have read. The pages are alive with characters - their machines, their struggles, their decisions and their pain. Readers will finish the book haunted and truly moved, the mark of a great story."
- Chris Ziedler, the English translator of ‘SS Panzer SS Voices.’
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 - available now on Amazon.
- Sales Rank: #2342 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-04
- Released on: 2015-03-04
- Format: Kindle eBook
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94 of 102 people found the following review helpful.
Highly implausible war-porn, posing as a "memoir"
By Eric Avila
I started reading this book with high hopes. Tiger Tracks purports to be a memoir written by a veteran of the Panzer force, but it became quickly apparent that it's really a very gory and lurid piece of fiction being fobbed off as fact on those who don't know any better."Wolfgang Faust" is conveniently a pseudonym, so the true author's military service records could never be checked. He is the lone survivor of the Kampfgruppe he starts the book with, so the veracity (or it's lack) cannot be cross-checked. The author has a basic understanding of tanks and their mechanics, but an understanding that could have been gleaned from such sources as the Panzerfibel without requiring any hands-on experience.
There is a great deal of writhing in flames in this book. Everyone hit in the head is decapitated, hollow-point bullets literally blow men apart (they don't). All the violence is very Hollywood, and over-the-top. There are a number of historically inaccuracies or outright impossibilities. There are an even greater number of decisions and actions undertaken by persons depicted in the book, which from a military point of view are ludicrous and suicidal (I should mention here for the sake of credibility, that I am a former member of a mechanized infantry unit). Examples:
- an experienced Tiger tank commander takes custody of a female Soviet prisoner and chains her up inside the tank. NO. There's absolutely no room inside an armored fighting vehicle for extra personnel. Even those who belong there are cramped and crowded. The danger this prisoner would interfere during a battle makes this action tactically absurd.
- Panzergrenadiers remain inside their halftracks during a stationary defensive battle while under assault by aircraft and enemy armor. Thus they contribute nothing to the fight, but contribute lurid depictions of slaughter to the story. No way they'd do this, the halftracks were death traps.
- Moving through a forest, Tigers lead the group, despite the presence of Panzergrenadiers who could scout ahead and clear the way. Again, tactically absurd, the experienced commander the author describes "Helmann" as would never have done this.
- A single Tiger tank takes off on it's own, at night, to track down a Soviet rocket launcher and crew. They manage to sneak the steel beast up on the enemy, unheard, and observes the enemy first. At night. Again, despite the presence of ample German infantry in the area, the Tiger does this without any dismounts...NO
- After destroying the Russian position, the commander orders one of his tank crew to dismount and scout around. By himself. In an unsecured area. At night. No battle buddy. Naturally, this man gets his head blown off...THAT, at least, is believable.
- Our valiant Kampfgruppe happen to stumble upon two German nurses wandering the steppe who somehow got left behind by their field hospital. These ladies join the panzer unit and are of course delighted to dispense a little sexual relief to the soldiers, in exchange for food, coffee, sugar, etc. Yeah, sure...
- The sheer amount of detail described by the author is simply not credible for a man whose view of the battle was limited to the vision slit of a Tiger driver. These were (and remain) notoriously limited in field of view. In reality, he'd have been able to see straight ahead and a few degrees to either side.
- The author claims to see a shell caroming around inside a Soviet tank turret, THROUGH THE VISION SLIT OF THE OTHER TANK'S DRIVER! No. Just No.
- Describes fighting Soviet tanks which, by his detailed descriptions of their hull and turrets, were JS-3's. These tanks didn't see action until the very last month of the war, yet our increasingly-implausible story purports to take place in October, 1943.
- He states at one point his family was killed in an RAF bombing of Munich in 1942. He later claims to have killed a British prisoner in Sicily the same month that his family died. Problem is, the Allies didn't invade Sicily until July of 1943...
As war-porn, the book is fine. As a memoir, it's complete crap. If anyone believes this author to truly be a veteran of the Eastern Front, and believes that his descriptions of the battles are accurate, then you must logically also believe that the German army was composed of tactically inept soldiers led by callous and incompetent officers, because that would be the conclusion of any military professional reading the actions taken by the protagonist and his unit.
45 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
A Novel . . .
By David Read
. . . and not a very good one. Obviously this is not really a memoir, or anything of the sort. The clincher as to its entirely fictional nature is that "Wolfgang Faust" describes two major tank battles between Tiger tanks and the Joseph Stalin tanks, but the Joseph Stalin tank he describes--an inverted soup-dish turret and a wedge-shaped cast iron front block on the hull, is the IS-3 and it was not manufactured until May, 1945 when the war was over. So both of these battles were entirely confabulated, probably based upon the author having seen IS-3s in Germany between 1945 and 1948 when this novel was written.
But the problem isn't so much that this is a novel, but that it is a bad novel. The whole plot is strategically absurd. The opening scenes are of a coordinated assault by Stukas, Tigers and armored infantry. The attack is successful, but within the same day, the Germans are forced to retreat not only to their jump off point, a couple of miles to the rear, but all the way back to a river that is 60 miles to the rear. All along their two-day retreat to the river, they are attacked by Russians who have gotten behind them. All I can say is, if the Germans were still attacking when their rear was threatened and insecure for a distance of 60 miles, it's little wonder they lost the war. But that's how they lost Von Paulus' Sixth Army at Stalingrad, so maybe it was, in fact, normal German strategy on the Eastern Front to insanely expose themselves and invite encirclement.
What rings even more false than the strategic situation is the author's penchant for claiming to have seen things he couldn't possibly have seen from any plausible location on the battlefield, much less buttoned up in the driver's seat of a Tiger tank, looking through a narrow slit. It would have been much better to have dropped the first person POV and described the action with the god-like view of the novelist describing events that no individual can see. What rings even more false is the author's penchant for describing mayhem and gore. Real solider memoirs don't glory in, and lovingly describe, their comrades being blown to bits, decapitated, dismembered, burned alive, shot, having their brains blown out,etc. That's just gross, and much of this book consists of descriptions of just such gore.
Bottom line: I don't believe a word of this. Not only are these events obviously untrue and made up, I not even completely convinced that "Wolfgang Faust" was ever in a Tiger tank on the eastern front during WWII.
44 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
Most likely fiction not memoir
By Willie Jett
My opinion is this is fiction. A fake memoir. Try to find out anything on Wolfgang Faust. In this "book" two battles are described but no locations or unit identification is given. Why? so you can't follow up and discover that they never happened and no one can find out that someone with this name never fought in these battles if you can even find out where they were.
It is a comic book like non stop description of gore and destruction with cartoon characters. Perhaps some talented author could turn this into a graphic novel and save it by actually interjecting a plot.
Seems like an outline for a CGI laden movie with exploding gas drums and actors you never heard of.
If you read some real memoirs you will be able to discern the difference between this work and something written by an actual battle participant. In a real memoir unless the author is the actual commanding officer like Hal Moore who wrote We Were Soldiers Once and Young about the Ia Deang battle in Viet Nam, who would by virtue of his position in command be able to speak to the whole of the battle, you do not ever get the kinds of descriptions and detail in this book from a low ranking soldier looking through the drivers slit in a tank.
Have you watched the history channel Tank Battles Stories? The descriptions of battles are peace meal and limited to that personally experienced by the author. Far from a comprehensive battle description, you get observations like "a tank showed up crossing our front and we fired," kind of observations. Individual struggles not battle descriptions in detail
Please surprise me. Someone find something about Wolfgang Faust and prove me wrong because for me this book does not pass the smell test.
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