DOC al-Sawad al-A'dham: Black Muslims in the Early Days of Islam by Yusuf J Yasin in History

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Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions; seeing extensive combat on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir was his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage.Depicting a running tank engagement lasting for three days; Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of western Russia against the full might of the Red Army: the T34s; Stalin tanks; Sturmovik bombers and the feared Katyusha rocket brigades. His astonishing testimony reveals the merciless decisions that panzer crews made in action; the devastating power of their weaponry; and the many ways that men met their deaths in the snow and ice of the Ostfront.First published in the late 1940s as 'Panzerdammerung' ('Panzer Twilight'); this memoir's savage realism shocked the post-war German public. Some readers were outraged at the book's final scenes; while others wrote that; 'Now; at last; I know what our men did in the East.'Today; 'Tiger Tracks' stands as one of the great semi-autobiographical accounts of warfare in World War 2: a crescendo of horror; grim survival and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man's destiny.The only other surviving memoir by this author is 'The Last Panther' - an astonishing account of panzer warfare in the final hours of the Third Reich - also available on Amazon.