Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

Panzer Ace

The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

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Produktbeschreibung

A vivid first-person account based on a wartime diary and field-post letters to his parents

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenhill Books
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1052g
• ISBN-13: 9781784382667
• ISBN-10: 1784382663
• Artikelnr.: 49099786

Autorenporträt

Richard Freiherr von Rosen served as a gunlayer on a Panzer tank during Operation Barbarossa; led a company of Tigers at Kursk; a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group against the Russians in Hungary. He was awarded the Iron Cross Class I and II; the German Cross in Gold being the highest Wehrmacht award for bravery, awarded on 28 February 1945; the Panzer Combat Badge II Grade and the Wound Badge in Gold.