Tank Crews: New Interviews

A new book by a leading military historian. A continuation of the super-bestseller “I Fought on the T-34,” which sold in record numbers.

New memoirs from tankers of the Great Patriotic War. What did Wehrmacht veterans remember first when they spoke about the horrors of the Eastern Front? Armadas of Soviet tanks. Who carried the main weight of the war on their shoulders, paid the highest price for Victory, and died the most terrible death? According to front-line soldiers: “There was a special attitude toward tankers—they died horribly. If a tank was hit—and they hit them often, that was a certain death: one or two might still manage to get out, the rest burned alive.” And when the tankers themselves were asked why they never had “front-romances,” they answered simply and grimly: “We were dying, burning….”

This book lets you see the war through the eyes of tank crews—from the gunner’s sight, the mechanic-driver’s slightly opened hatch, the commander’s panoramic view—how they lived at the front and in reserve, on the battlefield and in their rare moments of rest, how they fought, died, and won.