Panzer Gunner

An insider’s account of training and service in Nazi Germany’s twenty-fifth Panzer Regiment during World War II.

There are few memoirs available of German Panzer crews that focus on the climactic last 12 months of the war on the Eastern Front, 1944-45. What makes Bruno Friesen''s account virtually unique is his family background: his parents came from a German-speaking Mennonite community in Ukrain...