A significant post-war memoir written by one of Germany's best field commanders and a
brilliant Panzer general. Erhard Raus was given command of a brigade in 6.Panzer
Division as it entered the Soviet Union in June
1941. He quickly distinguished himself in the summer fighting on the Eastern
Front, earning the Iron Cross for piercing the "Stalin Line". During the Russian
campaign he rose steadily through the ranks and was appointed to Army Group
command in early 1945. As the war ended, Raus had established a reputation as
one of the German Army's foremost tacticians of armoured warfare, which made him
a prized capture by US Army Intelligence. In American captivity, Raus wrote a
detailed memoir of his service in Russia. His battlefield experience
and keen tactical eye make his memoir especially valuable. Later, the US Army
divided up and excerpted portions of the memoir for use in nearly a dozen
tactical manuals published during the 1950s. Those manuals, however, were
heavily edited and omitted much of the author's original material. Now, World
War II historian Steven H Newton has reassembled, translated and edited the
underlying narrative of Raus's four years of war on the Eastern Front. The Raus
memoir covers the Russian campaign from the first day of the war to his relief
from command at Hitler's order in the spring of 1945. It includes a detailed
examination of the Panzer division's drive to Leningrad, Raus's experiences in the Soviet winter
counter-offensive around Moscow, the unsuccessful
attempt to relieve Stalingrad, and the final desperate battles inside
Germany at the end of the
war.
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