Author(s): Otto Carius

Biographies & Memoirs

World War II Began with a Metallic Roar as the German blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by one of the most dreaded weapons of the twentieth century-the panzer-and driven on by the Third Reich's ideology of domination and hate. Destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders ever to take a Tiger tank into battle, and his vivid memoir is the story of both endurance under extreme combat conditions and courage in the service of a historically bad cause. His account is as close as the modern reader can get to manning the turret of a German tank in World War II. Book jacket.