Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer (Stackpole Military History): The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer (Stackpole Military History)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Kurt Meyer Our price £8.75 (£12.50) New from £6.35 Used from £6.82 Pages: 436 (Paperback) ISBN: 0811731979 Pub: Stackpole Books,U.S. Pub date: 2005-05-15 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 88037

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Ok (0/0 people found this helpful)

Meyer provides a first hand account of his war, starting in Poland, through to the Balkans, onto the Eastern Front and finally to the Western Front.

He does provide some good accounts of his experiences during all this fighting but as you go on and especially when you get to the chapters dealing with Normandy and beyond you can start to clearly see his warped view of events, his radical views etc.

It is resonable to say that at least half of his book is pure propaganda!

Meyers Memoirs (0/0 people found this helpful)

This is the first time I have read a book written by a member of the Waffen SS and I have found it to be very interesting and opened up a whole new perspective on the experiences of the combat soldier in World War II.

I found this 'unputtdownable' not wanting to wait to find out what happens next and that I think provides a good selling point.

But this does come across - at least until the latter chapters - as a book of war, war, war. There is little information on how Meyer was digesting his experiences and of the psychological impact it had on him and his soldiers.

As the book proceeds there is a transition - that may go unnoticed, due to the fast pace of the events - from the sweeping Blitzkrieg tactics of the German forces in the early years of the war, to the small scale battles for individual hills.

There is also to be found an explanation for Hitlers infamous order for his SS to remove their cuffbands.

I found that the addition of more maps in a better position within the book, would have added another dimension to reading and there are also a fair number of spelling mistakes (more than necessary), though really the quality of this book still deserves promotion.

In a few words:

Totally recommended, great read, unputtdownable.

absolute fiction (8/21 people found this helpful)

having read many first hand accounts from all sides involved in ww2 in most of the theaters I have never read one so biased.
if you believe that no matter what was thrown at mr meyer,s soldiers they kept on smiling and keeping there chin up then the true horrers of the conflicts he participated in are not brought to the reader at all.
he goes in to no detail of the battles his regiment fought, instead he just harps on about his brave and caring men.please read a forgotton soldier if you want a proper account of the eastern front

the best of their generation! (7/19 people found this helpful)

Forget every prejudice you were taught in school about WWII German soldiers. Here we have a first hand account (and his tales were confirmed through other sources, german and ex-allied) of a german Waffen SS commander who led his units always fronting his men in the heat of battle (unlike all higher allied commanders...). You will read about the unsurpassed skills, bravery and courage these warriors showed in battle and about a comradeship we do not find in today's armies. You will the horrors of war and human tragedies as well as battle glories. Bear witness to the more than human achievements and sacrifices these men went through. Today military experts agree that the german soldiers and especially also the Waffen SS soldiers were the best of their generation as military men. True sworn brothers of the sword they performed their duty with unequaled toughness and dedication. Later used as scapegoats in the after-war-days these elite men of the Waffen SS units were the best of their generation and german soldiers like any others.

Excellent first hand accounts (12/14 people found this helpful)

I agree with the previous reviewer. This book is a facinating read on the career of Kurt "Panzer" Meyer who lead his units from the front in every theatre of war he served in. I'm amazed that he is only mentioned in passing in other literature. Unputdownable!!

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