A professional soldier, Hans von Luck joined the Panzerwaffe in its
earliest days, serving under Erwin Rommel. Skilled in the art of
armoured warfare, von Luck fought in the invasion of Poland in 1939
and was present as the Blitzkrieg swept across the Low Countries
and France the following year. In 1941 Hitler's forces turned their
attention to the East, launching their invasion of the Soviet
Union, Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June. Hans von Luck's unit was
one of the many deployed in that offensive. Von Luck then served
with the Afrika Korps in the Western Desert. In describing his
service in this theatre, he tells of the occasionally chivalrous
relationship with the men of the Eighth Army. After the Axis
collapse in Africa, he returned to Europe and fought throughout the
Normandy Campaign. Captured by the Soviets at the end of the war,
he was held for five years in a prisoner of war camp. After the
war, he formed friendships with those who had been his opponents
during the war, including Major John Howard, who had led the
capture of Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. As the renowned historian
M.R.D. Foot once wrote, _Panzer Commander_ is a book that shows the
finest face of the old officer class, the Kaderfamilie of central
Europe, who were brought up to fight, but to fight clean - even
when they came under the orders of satanic leaders'. That this
unique and insightful account of one man's war and its aftermath is
one of the classic memoirs of the Second World War is beyond doubt.
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