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# Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck

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A stunning look at World War II from the other side... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. 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. German soldiers. Awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knight's Cross, von Luck writes as an officer and a gentleman. Told with the vivid detail of an impassioned eyewitness, his rare and moving memoir has become a classic in the literature of World War II, a first-person chronicle of the glory--and the inevitable tragedy--of a superb soldier fighting Hitler's war.

Review: A fascinating read! - I had seen Hans von Lucks name in other books. When I saw he had a book I decided to pick it up. I found it fascinating enough to want to write the man a letter. Sadly he passed in 1997. Overall this book is reasonably balanced. He tries to tell his stories with an objective point of view. You will not see the glorification of Hitler, he does not write prejudicial views of Russians even though it could be argued he had good reason. This is not a book analyzing battle tactics. It is a about the memories and experiences of a man who happened to be involved in the Battles of Poland, France, Eastern Front, Africa, D-Day, and the final attempt to stop the Russians at the Halbe. He spent time in the Gulags and was released. His release starts the book. Some observations: * He goes about describing himself as a guy doing his duty. However, he was part of the early officer corps and was at Hitler's early speeches. I wondered if he was avoiding the label of Nazi but considering how people went out their way to help him while at the Gulags and after the war. Never mind the fact that many of his former enemies befriended him; he had to be a decent guy. * He mentions a meeting between Guderian and Rommel. He didn't know what they discussed but it would be fascinating to find out what they did talk about. * He was very close with Rommel and it gives you insight to the man. It's interesting that he doesn't talk about events involving his death. * The top reviewer said he didn't mention the attempt on Hitler's life. He in fact did and talked about Rommel telling him it would create a "Stab in the back" legend. * He comes across as rather honorable as he changes names or does not give full names to people he thought would get in trouble or should be left alone. * I found it interesting that during D-Day his group was to hold position and that Rommel had sent word to attack with everything. The message never made it to him other the other commanders. It makes you wonder what might have happened to the Para units if they were hit before they could organize their defenses. * He talked about Operation Goodwood and how Monty claimed it served its purpose because it tied up 4 divisions and allowed the Americans to break through. Yet, captured Canadian soldiers said Monty told them they were going to go for Paris. * He talked about a battle I didn't know about "The Battle for Hatten-Rittershoffen" A nasty affair that decimated his unit, the American 72nd Infantry division and the 14th Armored division. Two villages were leveled and nothing was accomplished. * He has a few funny stories like the adjunct he ran a plate of food to him through a bombardment as he felt it was bad for the commander to have an empty stomach. He also talked about how he obtained and lost a wine collection and a Mercedes. * He doesn't mention the fall of Hitler. * He tries to give insight to the ways of the Russians and the Russian mindset. As I mentioned he would have been a fascinating man to hear talk about his experiences. Luckily this book and a few videos will keep them around.
Review: Why I enjoyed reading these fascinating memoirs... - I have read countless World War 2 history books; some I struggled my way through, but others have been fascinating reads. So for example, Beevor's 'Berlin' and 'Stalingrad' were certainly easier than Wilmot's 'Struggle for Europe'. I found von Luck's story fascinating because of the hundreds of anecdotes and observations that you seldom come across in more strategic history books. He certainly lived up to the English word 'Luck' and that he survived conflict from 1 September 1939 until the defense of Berlin 1945 and then another 5 years in a Russian prison camp is extraordinary. For serious students of Rommel, this book is a must as it highlights a number of personal interactions between von Luck and his commander. The French campaign is described in great detail and von Luck gives some wonderful descriptions of Rommel's tactics and how he wins his men's loyalty. The story of von Luck's capture of Fecamp would be humorous if it wasn't warfare. To me this account of the capture of the harbour was a highlight of the first hundred pages of the book. I'd suggest at this stage you'd either be hooked to continue reading or otherwise don't waste your time as the rest of the memoirs are filled with similar such stories. I also loved reading about the post 1945 years, the harsh years in captivity and how he created a new life for himself after his release in January 1950. He won my admiration and yet all through the memoirs you do sense his constraint in retelling these years. He does not glorify war and actual specific details of battle are often quite impersonal. Instead he excels in the observation of his encounters with people - with the famous such as Guderian and Rommel to the ordinary such as Russian guards and peasants, French resistance with whom he watched 'illegal' jazz and of course his interactions with his men and colleagues. His memoirs recount his love affair with Dagmar who is "one-eighth Jewish". It is the detail around the events of her father being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and von Luck's attempt to intervene by asking to meet with Kaltenbrunner that make for riveting reading. He also intervenes on behalf a Frenchman arrested by the Gestapo and I found his conciliatory attitude towards his Russian captors amazing. Cynics may brush these accounts aside as selective memory but I found all these stories remarkably consistent with the character of the man who emerges from all these stories. He was a proud German army officer of the Third Reich and his recognition of this is not hidden, nor does he shy away from acknowledging the horrors perpetrated by his fellow countrymen and his own inner turmoil and frustration. There will always be heart break for a patriot of an evil regime. A great read; my only disappointment being that 350 odd pages went by so quickly.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #120,484 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #189 in German History (Books) #244 in WWII Biographies #512 in World War II History (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,102 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fascinating read!
*by M***R on August 6, 2006*

I had seen Hans von Lucks name in other books. When I saw he had a book I decided to pick it up. I found it fascinating enough to want to write the man a letter. Sadly he passed in 1997. Overall this book is reasonably balanced. He tries to tell his stories with an objective point of view. You will not see the glorification of Hitler, he does not write prejudicial views of Russians even though it could be argued he had good reason. This is not a book analyzing battle tactics. It is a about the memories and experiences of a man who happened to be involved in the Battles of Poland, France, Eastern Front, Africa, D-Day, and the final attempt to stop the Russians at the Halbe. He spent time in the Gulags and was released. His release starts the book. Some observations: * He goes about describing himself as a guy doing his duty. However, he was part of the early officer corps and was at Hitler's early speeches. I wondered if he was avoiding the label of Nazi but considering how people went out their way to help him while at the Gulags and after the war. Never mind the fact that many of his former enemies befriended him; he had to be a decent guy. * He mentions a meeting between Guderian and Rommel. He didn't know what they discussed but it would be fascinating to find out what they did talk about. * He was very close with Rommel and it gives you insight to the man. It's interesting that he doesn't talk about events involving his death. * The top reviewer said he didn't mention the attempt on Hitler's life. He in fact did and talked about Rommel telling him it would create a "Stab in the back" legend. * He comes across as rather honorable as he changes names or does not give full names to people he thought would get in trouble or should be left alone. * I found it interesting that during D-Day his group was to hold position and that Rommel had sent word to attack with everything. The message never made it to him other the other commanders. It makes you wonder what might have happened to the Para units if they were hit before they could organize their defenses. * He talked about Operation Goodwood and how Monty claimed it served its purpose because it tied up 4 divisions and allowed the Americans to break through. Yet, captured Canadian soldiers said Monty told them they were going to go for Paris. * He talked about a battle I didn't know about "The Battle for Hatten-Rittershoffen" A nasty affair that decimated his unit, the American 72nd Infantry division and the 14th Armored division. Two villages were leveled and nothing was accomplished. * He has a few funny stories like the adjunct he ran a plate of food to him through a bombardment as he felt it was bad for the commander to have an empty stomach. He also talked about how he obtained and lost a wine collection and a Mercedes. * He doesn't mention the fall of Hitler. * He tries to give insight to the ways of the Russians and the Russian mindset. As I mentioned he would have been a fascinating man to hear talk about his experiences. Luckily this book and a few videos will keep them around.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Why I enjoyed reading these fascinating memoirs...
*by I***N on July 31, 2006*

I have read countless World War 2 history books; some I struggled my way through, but others have been fascinating reads. So for example, Beevor's 'Berlin' and 'Stalingrad' were certainly easier than Wilmot's 'Struggle for Europe'. I found von Luck's story fascinating because of the hundreds of anecdotes and observations that you seldom come across in more strategic history books. He certainly lived up to the English word 'Luck' and that he survived conflict from 1 September 1939 until the defense of Berlin 1945 and then another 5 years in a Russian prison camp is extraordinary. For serious students of Rommel, this book is a must as it highlights a number of personal interactions between von Luck and his commander. The French campaign is described in great detail and von Luck gives some wonderful descriptions of Rommel's tactics and how he wins his men's loyalty. The story of von Luck's capture of Fecamp would be humorous if it wasn't warfare. To me this account of the capture of the harbour was a highlight of the first hundred pages of the book. I'd suggest at this stage you'd either be hooked to continue reading or otherwise don't waste your time as the rest of the memoirs are filled with similar such stories. I also loved reading about the post 1945 years, the harsh years in captivity and how he created a new life for himself after his release in January 1950. He won my admiration and yet all through the memoirs you do sense his constraint in retelling these years. He does not glorify war and actual specific details of battle are often quite impersonal. Instead he excels in the observation of his encounters with people - with the famous such as Guderian and Rommel to the ordinary such as Russian guards and peasants, French resistance with whom he watched 'illegal' jazz and of course his interactions with his men and colleagues. His memoirs recount his love affair with Dagmar who is "one-eighth Jewish". It is the detail around the events of her father being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and von Luck's attempt to intervene by asking to meet with Kaltenbrunner that make for riveting reading. He also intervenes on behalf a Frenchman arrested by the Gestapo and I found his conciliatory attitude towards his Russian captors amazing. Cynics may brush these accounts aside as selective memory but I found all these stories remarkably consistent with the character of the man who emerges from all these stories. He was a proud German army officer of the Third Reich and his recognition of this is not hidden, nor does he shy away from acknowledging the horrors perpetrated by his fellow countrymen and his own inner turmoil and frustration. There will always be heart break for a patriot of an evil regime. A great read; my only disappointment being that 350 odd pages went by so quickly.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice book marred by deceptive marketing.
*by H***M on November 12, 2011*

I greatly enjoyed reading this book. Von Luck is clearly a capable storyteller who had a wide ranging and interesting experiences during and after World War II: invasions of Poland and France, invasion of Soviet Union up to the battles around Moscow, the final phase of the North Africa campaign, battles in Normandy and later, the relatively underpublicized campaign in Alsace-Lorraine, and the final battles around Berlin. Most of these experiences, he was at the tip of the spear of the German arms, especially early on in the campaign, when he was in the reconnaissance unit of a panzer division. His close association with a far more publicized figure, Erwin Rommel--he served under Rommel in France, in North Africa, and again, in France until Rommel exited the scene after the early phase of the Normandy campaign--doubtlessly helped publicize the book, in addition. His captivity in Russian camps for about 5 years after the war added several interesting chapters to the book. While the stories in the book are interesting enough, however, the book is curiously misleading in several aspects. While von Luck did serve in tank units, he was not, ever in his career, in a capacity to be described as a "Panzer Commander," at least not officially. He was a junior officer in a reconnaissance unit from the beginning of the war through early part of the Russian campaign, a commander of reconnaissance units in North Africa, and in charge of a mechanized infantry (i.e. panzergrenadier) regiment in Normandy and around Berlin. While he did often lead combined arms outfits that included tanks, given the usual German practice of creating ad hoc battle groups for specific tasks, the title of the book is still rather misleading. The blurb on the back cover goes even further with the mischaracterization, suggesting that he somehow led the panzer divisions he served in--which is totally untrue. The perspectives presented in the book may be a bit unsatisfactory for military strategy buffs. While his combat stories, when they appear, are interesting enough, the space devoted to combat operations is surprisingly limited. When they appear, they are very limited in scope. Such limited scope is understandable given that, first, von Luck was, in the end, a low man on the totem pole who was largely uninvolved in higher level command decisions; and second, he did not spend sufficiently extended period on any one front that would have given him a deeper perspective about the operations there. The more interesting stories concern his experiences in dealing with people (mostly civilians) of various kinds, including the German civilians (this is one of few firsthand accounts where the strange racial laws of Nazi Germany are mentioned and described in some detail--as von Luck's then-fiance, described only as Dagmar S., was, in Nazi parlance, a mischling, or a part-Jew, and as such, subject to various legal restrictions), the French living under German occupation, the Arabs of Libya and Egypt (this is one of the few accounts of the North African campaign where the actual local inhabitants are shown to be doing anything)k and the Soviet civilians around the camp in Georgia where the German (and other) prisoners were held. Even in these accounts, though, I kept wondering that the perspective is rather warped because of von Luck's background as a cosmopolitan, seemingly well-connected, aristocrat. He keeps describing, for example, his interactions with some pretty powerful and important people (such as von Papen, a former chancellor of Germany, and the father of one of his friends) in most casual terms--which I don't think would have been most Germans, even if they were army officers. Another thing worth remembering when reading this book, also, is the casual portrayal of the immensely powerful position he enjoyed as a well-connected officer in the occupying German army in France. He, and more importantly, his French friends led a quite privileged life, with access to good things that were in desperately short supply not only in France but also in Germany. He could even get the local Gestapo to release one of them who was arrested for (very real) involvement with the Resistance (although he could not get his Gestapo in Germany to release his would-be-father in law who was arrested as a political prisoner, nor could he obtain government's permission to officially marry his part-Jewish fiance--which are, perhaps telling revelations about Nazi Germany). The fact that von Luck was a "good German" is emphasized, especially by himself, and there is no reason to believe it is untrue. One does have to wonder how the other German army officers behaved in occupied countries. All in all, an interesting, entertaining read, but not really for military buffs. There is something too saccharine about the book and its author. Von Luck is too much of the stereotypical "good German": He speaks English, French, and Russian; He is friendly, cosmopolitan, and courteous to friends and enemies alike when not in combat; He is a courageous, tough, but professional fighter in combat. I don't doubt all of his narrative is completely true. I also think people like him were about as common as a dodo bird in Nazi Germany. On the other hand, his perspective is limited because of his relatively low rank (a captain at the beginning of the war, a colonel by the end) in the military totem pole. Plus, he is way too eager to please his English-speaking readers. These don't make for anything approaching an objective account about either World War II or about life in Nazi Germany.

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