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Panzer Gunner
- From My Native Canada to the German Ostfront and Back. In Action with 25th Panzer Regiment, 7th Panzer Division 1944-45
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank. Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes of a better life. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division. Serving as a gunner in a Panzer IV tank and then a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, Friesen experienced intense combat against the Soviets in Romania, Lithuania, and West Prussia.
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- Richard Denis Chadwick
- 14-03-23
memoir of a german.
really good and interesting book, albeit short on his combat there is still many interesting and really good facts in this book, I love how life was back in the day, and how these men just wanted to do the right thing, and then excelled at their jobs. recommended book like all german memoirs.
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- R. J. Selwyn
- 01-09-20
Brilliant Now in my Top 5
Brilliant story and so very detailed. Very interesting explaining why for instance different tanks of WWII had certain advantages and disadvantages over other tanks. Loved this rare account from a German point of view.
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- B COOK
- 29-09-19
fantastic read
this is a fantastic read. it sadly does not go into a lot of information about the battles fought in. but the technical details about the gun sight was something i never thought possible.
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- john lockwood
- 24-05-19
goes in to a great detail.
this book from a person who was there goes into a great deal of details that normally is not covered by many authors .
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- Ian
- 22-09-20
Not the best
It was half decent ,not a great chronological story ,was missing some personal touches really and you didn't feel like you where right there with the author ,was overly technical in places with regards to sightings the gun and just be came a massive list of numbers and calculations ,
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- G Patterson
- 21-04-20
Technical.
A great book spoiled in places by the writer getting a bit too technical over the vehicle specifications.
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- Sean
- 17-11-23
Very heavy on technical details
Lengthy detailed descriptions but no real information. I’m a bit skeptical of the story, very detailed account of visiting a brothel. Every thrust in detail. Gave up listening I don’t think it’s a genuine account of a panzer gunner
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- David
- 01-06-23
Not great
Sorry to say I can’t recommend this book. It reads like a manual for the tank crew. For example, listening to the detailed descriptions of how to aim the gun (which goes on for several minutes) was of no interest to me. This is just one example of the technical description which isn’t necessary.
I’ve just finished another book by a German ‘tanker’ during WW2 which I would recommend - Panzer Ace by Richard Freiherr vin Rosen.
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