Want to know more about tanks and tactics on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? Then this is the ideal book. This account by General Erhard Raus was originally written just after the end of the war in order to provide briefing information for the US Army at the height of the Cold War. Raus's forces were prominent at the
Battle of Stalingrad, seeking to make his Panzer unit break the Soviet position. He offers an analytical study of what went wrong for the German units, and why the Soviets succeeded. Tsouras has added a useful introduction which puts Raus's work in perspective, both in terms of the Second World War and later events.

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Tsauras has done a good job of presenting Raus’s material, supporting the text with a number of useful footnotes. There is a useful introduction giving a biography of Raus and his command experiences, some good maps and information appendices. Raus’s writing themselves are of great historical value, giving us a clear idea of how one senior German general saw events on the Eastern Front, as well as a series of accounts of individual actions of varied scale and importance.

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