Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

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On 12 June Kampfgruppe von Luck engaged in the fighting for the village of Sainte-Honorine, lying on a hill overlooking the invasion beaches. Oficiri po pravilu nisu voleli Hitlera, a odnos Wehrmachta prema lokalnom stanovništvu je bio idiličan.

The severe fuel shortage curtailed operations, but on 17 December Luck and his reinforced detachment managed to flank an advancing British Armor Division, and destroy 20 tanks using the 88mm guns. His outlook is very interesting, he generally has nothing bad to say about most individuals and doesn't really have anything bad to say about them. The withdrawal could only be conducted on two roads, with very high piles of snow alongside them, meaning that no maneuvering could take place. Luck only brings up the Nazi position on the Jews at a couple of points during this recounting of his wartime experiences.

Since November Rommel had requested the transfer of Luck to Africa to take over command of one of his recon battalions. A quick attack was launched by the II Battalion, and it succeeded in disturbing the paratrooper operations, and capturing some prisoners. On 30 June 1934 Luck's unit took part in the Night of the Long Knives, arresting several Sturmabteilung members in Stettin. Luck was assigned to the 21st Panzer Division, stationed in Brittany and commanded by Edgar Feuchtinger.

During the First World War he took part in the Battle of Jutland, and died in July 1918 from the great flu pandemic. Once when retelling how various Muslims tribes encountered in Africa praised the official German position and then later when reporting how he tried to get his fiancée's Jewish father out of Sachsenhausen, the Nazi prison and concentration camp outside of Berlin.Christmas celebrations during the Second World War often had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll.

A week later, after a brief rest and refit, the 21st Panzer Division was sent to the Villers Bocage area south of Bayeux. In 1939 his motorized unit was one of the first to cross the frontier into Poland, marking the start of World War II. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the disastrous Russian front--von Luck fought there with some of the best soldiers in the world. Luck highlights what a disaster it is when someone like Trump or Hitler thinks they know better than the generals. Over the next six years he was constantly in action in every major theatre of the war, and got to know almost every German commander of note.Luck set out for the front, and to his dismay saw a large contingent of British tanks rolling over what had been the dug in positions of I Battalion/125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, in the direction of Cagny.