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This is fiction disguised as a memoir. How do I know? Let me first say, that I have been interested in WW2 and the Eastern Front since I was 12 (52 now). My dad was a teenage soldier in the German Army at the end of the war. He served as a frontline soldier ("Landser") in an assault engineer bataillon, which was part of the German forces of the "Courland Pocket" in 1944/45. He spent 5 years as a POW in Russia after the war. Now to the "hints" that give away this book as fiction. First there is a lot of technical details that the author got wrong. The Iron Cross was not worn at the throat, only the Knights Cross was worn under the collar/on the throat. Tank crews did not wear hobnailed boots (because of sparks). Tank crews did not carry morphine. The Germans did not call the Russian rocket launchers "Katyusha" but "Stalins Organ" The Germans did not call the Russians The "Reds", but just "Russians" or "Ivans". There is frequent mention of Methamphetamins, which were supposedly freely available. In Germany this drug was called "Pervitin" and was mainly avaible to special troops, e.g. aircrews for long range bombing or recon misisons etc. Second: The author gives every piece of equipment and weaponry its proper name and adds quite detailled technical description. A real veteran would not have known in the first place or would not remember. Examples: He remembers the Russian aircraft as the Sturmovik. He always talks about his MP40, where a normal grunt would just call it an MP. He describes in detail that Jagdpanzer that was based on a chassis of Panzer IV. Really? When You were in the middle of a desperate fight for Your life at the time? Third, as some other reviewers have commented, he claims that he saw the effects of combat on enemy tanks and enemy soldiers in much too much detail than was possible from the restricted view inside his tank turret. Fourth: Language does not sound like translation from a German text supposedly written in the 40s/50s. English grammar and vocabulary is much too good and sounds very contemporary. Fifth: Some of the actions are unbelievable: Would German Soldiers in the last days of the war really shoot Russian POWs, if they had to fear reprisals when becoming prisoners themselves, maybe within days? I don't think so. Six: Almost no interaction with his fellow tankers. No description of their background etc. Very unlikely for a combat soldier not to care about and not to rember his closest comrades. Conclusion: This book was written by a contemporary author (probably English or American), who did their research on Wikipedia and is trying to sell it as a war memoir of a German soldier. As such it is a complete rip-off and a deceipt of the readers.