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Raised in 1943 with 17-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and "Tunisgrad", the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of offices and NCOs provided by Hitler's bodyguard division, the elite Leibstandarte, with the aim of producing a division of "equal value" to fight alongside them in I SS Panzer Corps.
During the fighting in Normandy, the Hitlerjugend proved to be implacable foes to both the British and the Canadians, repeatedly blunting Montgomery's offensives, fighting with skill and a degree of determination well beyond the norm. This they did from D+1 through to the final battle to escape from the Falaise Pocket, despite huge disadvantages, namely constant Allied air attack, highly destructive naval gunfire, and a chronic lack of combat supplies and replacements of men and equipment.
Written with the advantage of new materials from archives in the former Eastern Bloc, this book is no whitewash of a Waffen SS division and it does not shy away from confronting unpalatable facts or controversies.
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Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a company of Tigers at Kursk. Later he led a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group (12 King Tigers and a flak company) against the Russians in Hungary in the rank of junior, later senior lieutenant (from November 1944, his final rank). Only 489 of these King Tiger tanks were ever built.
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Not what I expected
- By Gabriel on 01-04-19
By: Richard Freiherr von Rosen, and others
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From the Realm of a Dying Sun, Volume 1
- IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July - November 1944
- By: Douglas E. Nash Sr.
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 28 hrs and 13 mins
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The histories of the first three SS corps are well known - the actions of I, II, and III (Germanic) SS-Panzerkorps and their subordinate divisions, including the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend, Hohenstaufen, Frundsberg, and Nordland divisions, have been thoroughly documented and publicized. Overlooked in this pantheon is another SS corps that never fought in the west or in Berlin but one that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war - the IV SS-Panzerkorps.
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Excellent top to bottom
- By Anonymous User on 11-01-20
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Tigers in the Mud
- The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
- By: Otto Carius
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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World War II began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever take a Tiger into battle, destroying well over 150 enemy tanks during his incredible career.
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A troubled, yet worthwhile read...
- By Alek on 05-25-18
By: Otto Carius
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Hitler's Soldiers
- The German Army in the Third Reich
- By: Ben H. Shepherd
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and occupation.
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Thorough and scholarly
- By Mary A. on 03-23-18
By: Ben H. Shepherd
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Army of Evil
- A History of the SS
- By: Adrian Weale
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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In Nazi Germany, they were called the Schutzstaffel. The world would know them as the dreaded SS - the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich...It began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security duties in Germany - ranging from local village "gendarmes" all they way up to the secret political police and the Gestapo.
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Got lost in the details.
- By Alan on 11-28-12
By: Adrian Weale
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Kiev 1941
- Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
- By: David Stahel
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and, for Hitler and Stalin, a battle of crucial importance. For the first time, David Stahel charts the battle's dramatic course and aftermath.
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The book you must read on Hitler's War with Russia
- By Kindle Customer on 05-28-19
By: David Stahel
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The Germans in Normandy
- By: Richard Hargreaves
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler's mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers, but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break. After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stalemate prevailed. The Germans fought with great courage - hindered by lack of supplies and overwhelming Allied control of the air. This book describes the catastrophe that followed, in a unique look at the war from the losing side.
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a different view of Normandy 1944
- By Oscar Shinn on 06-13-20
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In Deadly Combat
- A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
- By: Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, Derek S. Zumbro - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. In his memoir, he shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape.
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Not as engaging as others
- By Bookworm on 12-20-17
By: Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, and others
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Breakout from Juno
- First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4 - August 21, 1944
- By: Mark Zuehlke
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.
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Disappointing narration and geography
- By Gary on 04-13-14
By: Mark Zuehlke
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The Panzer Killers
- The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
- By: Daniel P. Bolger
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton and the other top US commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse and roll over the Germans - they needed one man with the grit and the vision to take the war all the way to the Rhine. Patton and his peers selected Maurice Rose.
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Pronunciation counts
- By Brian Shivers on 08-22-21
By: Daniel P. Bolger
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Alamo in the Ardennes
- The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible
- By: John C. McManus
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge - the story of five crucial days in which small groups of American soldiers, some outnumbered 10 to 1, slowed the German advance and allowed the Belgian town of Bastogne to be reinforced. Alamo in the Ardennes provides a compelling, day-by-day account of this pivotal moment in America's greatest war.
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hard to listen to this great story
- By Justine Reis on 07-20-18
By: John C. McManus
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The Forgotten Soldier
- By: Guy Sajer
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
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When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue, and constant deprivation. Posted to the elite Grosse Deutschland division, he enters a violent and remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down, and all that matters is the brute will to survive.
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A Beautifully Written Heartrending Tragedy
- By Gillian on 03-31-17
By: Guy Sajer
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D-Day
- June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities and triumphs of life are laid bare and courage and heroism come to the fore.
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What an epic story what great men
- By Michael on 02-12-14
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Blood, Dust and Snow
- Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front
- By: Friedrich Sander, Robin Schafer - editor translator, Roger Moorhouse - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephan Goldbach
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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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 firsthand 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.
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Great account of a light tank commander during WWII, BUT
- By William T. on 09-16-23
By: Friedrich Sander, and others
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- Michael V McKenney
- 05-21-23
Excellent book German perspective
Excellent book as told from the veteran's themselves. Recommend to anyone who enjoys WWII battle histories
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- David Blacker
- 02-16-23
Super book, bad narration
Tim Saunders has written an interesting and informative book on the 12th SS that’s worth having in any military library. First hand accounts as well as big picture views keep it well balanced. Bruce Mann however is not a great narrator. His German accent isn’t the problem. It’s just that he drones on in the style of a 1980s tv news presenter, and it’s difficult not to lose track of what he’s saying and have to go back to erlistend to parts that just don’t etch themselves into the listener’s brain. I almost stopped after half an hour, but persisted, and it does get a bit better as it goes along, but not much. I’d rather have read the original and skipped the audio book.
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- Rex
- 02-20-24
Great Book, Narration’s Fine
I really liked this book, great D-Day stories from the German POV. Lots of things you’ve likely never heard before. I actually liked the narrator. Not sure what the hate is about there, but it seems exaggerated imho. I think he did a very good job.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-21-23
the book is very well written, but ....
extremely well researched and written book, but the choice of narrator is a bad one.... I would actually consider getting this book again if they will redo the narration by another.....
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- MortonC
- 04-24-24
Needs to be re-narrated then it would be great
This story *should* be great and gives excellent insights into one of the premiere German units in Normandy. Unfortunately the poor narration ruins it to such an extent that the listener is completely distracted and the story is significantly diminished.
I really despair how Tantor Audio simply must not be quality-checking the work of their narrators. They must be dismissing poor performances with "Sure this is good enough" or similar. In the same way that an editor ensures the quality of the *content*, audiobook producers need to be ensuring the quality of the *delivery*.
This narrator seems to be over-compensating for dull performances by adding emphasis on random words in almost every sentence, regardless of context or meaning. This is what makes the performance so distracting and the inappropriate emphasis just confuses the message or story that is attempting to be conveyed.
To give some examples of this continual and distracting emphasis, I will use capitals to show emphasis and dashes when he draws out a word to be longer than necessary. He often adds pauses no reason; frequently with the last word in a sentence and especially with the word 'road':
"...with the panzers astride the... R-O-A-D"
"...to help the 85th division contain the... e-n-e-m-y"
"extended two kilometers through partly broken... te-R-R-A-I-N"
Almost every time that he says Falaise, he makes it "fa...L-A-I-S-E"
Eventually, all this just drives you batty.
Ok, to the story... this is a unit history, rather than a personal tale. So we don't get as many of the small insights but we do get a lot of excellent details and ideas of what life was like in the HJ. I have an elevated interest in the Normandy campaign as I lived there in the 1980s (though I'm more familiar with what was the American sector, a little further west, so I'm hoping for similar memoires from the Panzer Lehr). Anyway, if this wasn't Normandy, I would probably have given up, but I'm back to the narration again.
One thing that is somewhat glossed over is that the author seems to add some data to the high contentious question of what exactly what happened to Michael Wittmann! He refers to a shot low to the ground in a field of barley hitting Wittmann's Tiger (note that slightly earlier references to a 'field of corn' refer to wheat (British-English), not maize (American-English)). He also says that the shot came "from the right" (though I'm confused as to the speaker's orientation).
The histories are mostly given a positive spin (which is fine) and also give the viewpoint from the Canadian or British side, which is a good counterpoint. And we are reminded of how much Allied Air Supremacy and the Allies' vast quantities of materiel impacted the HJ's to mount a successful campaign.
Overall, I can't recommend this book with the current narrator, but if it was re-narrated it could be excellent. Or, if we could have someone like Sean Pratt or Lloyd James, it would be outstanding!
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- Andrew Paul Foust
- 08-24-21
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the performance was awful, the voice and way it was read killed my ears. overall back because of the voice over... do over will someone with a personality in their voice Bruce Mann ruined this.
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