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D-Day tank hunter : the World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy by Hans Hoeller, 1921- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"One of the few surviving German veterans of World War II recounts his wartime experience with the harrowing directness of someone who stood amid the firestorm. Hans Hoeller joined the war in 1941 and was trained as a tank hunter. After his first assignment to North Africa he returned to Germany for officer's training. Once again, he deployed to the desert to take part in the last battles of Wehrmacht in Tunisia. Badly wounded in close combat, he was lucky enough to be evacuated by plane - right in time to help rebuilding 21st Panzer Division in Northern France. Hans recounts feverishly waiting for the Allied landing. As it finally came, he saw months of intense fighting, north of Caen, in the Falaise pocket and covering the Wehmacht's retreat to the east. Hans' war formally ended in late 1944, when he was taken prisoner and shipped to the USA. However, the war insight him rages on to this very day. He wrote this memoir to come to terms with that time. To give a name to all those soldiers who had died next to him, under his command, or even because of his actions. He hopes that never again shall our children and grandchildren face each other in the trenches-that the bloodshed remai
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- Author
- Hans Hoeller, 1921-
- Publisher
- Independent Publishing
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9788428334105
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (1,014 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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