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    From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945
    From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945
    From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945
    Audiobook26 hours

    From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945

    Written by Douglas E. Nash, Sr.

    Narrated by David de Vries

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    About this audiobook

    This is the concluding volume of the history of the IV SS-Panzerkorps, a relatively unknown organization that was born in battle during the last year of the war and fought exclusively on the Eastern Front. After their successful defense of Warsaw and the Vistula Front during the fall of 1944, the corps and its two famous Waffen-SS divisions, the Totenkopf and Wiking, as well as several divisions of the German Army, were sent south to reverse the military situation on the Hungarian Front. Follow General Gille and his divisions as they try to relieve Budapest against impossible odds, defend the tactically important town of Stuhlweissenburg, and fight in Germany's last major offensive, Operation Frühlingserwachsen. Learn how this SS tank corps, during the closing days of the war in Europe, fought massive tank battles, conducted grim rear-guard actions, and carried out night assaults against a numerically superior enemy who was determined to crush the Third Reich no matter the cost. After its failure to defend Vienna, the only course remaining for Gille and his men was a long and costly retreat, ending only with capitulation to the US Army and an uncertain future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 29, 2020
    ISBN9781705226261
    From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945

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    • 5/5
      SS 4th Panzer Corps, Totenkopf und Wiking: The Impossible Mission.

      Holy cow! I got PTSD after these two books on 4th SS Panzer Corps. Talk about shear battle! Greek 300 and 10,000 over and over, this Corps did the impossible. Its missions were always okay you guys go here and defeat 10 Soviet armies etc. The author and the narrator made it possible to see and ‘experience’ a dark reality were good soldiers were forced to do the impossible. Never lead humans to such a fate ever!

      These solders of misconceived ‘exceptionalism’ were downright exceptional. This 62 hour two book reading was epic, horrific and sad. The author covers everything and then gets to personal accounts that make a person’s head spin. I have many images in my mind one being the encounter of a waffen ss panzergrenadier fighting through the town turns a corner encounters a lumbering King Tiger behind a house. Hello. So many stories about units and combat groups KG Rosen (Norge?) and KG Martini etc. fighting against overwhelming odds. Taking out JS2's with panzerfausts! 130 tank kills in one day for either division a not uncommon thing.

      The author, Douglas E. Nash, Sr., masterfully listed all units in German and made note of tactical concepts in German like ‘ungreif abwehr’ enriching the narrative. This author is my superstar hero! The narrator David de Vries was spectacular! Wow, going through all those people and places and complex languages. My god unreal reading! My ears loved your voice. Thank you so much! This winter research was a phenomenology for me and your production is a vital historical document. But it was also painful to hear this. My heart goes out to these people that suffered so badly. We must never forget how these people suffered yet went on and fought! I want to avoid this type of ‘misunderstanding’.

      I read military history and philosophy books. You put me on the field of battle! Gave me adventure and taught me to seek peace in the endless wars of reason (Kant). These tank duels parallel my own writing on Adorno’s negative dialectic, slinging shit. The Germans advanced the concept of war and yet took only one man to bring it down how ironic. This war really was the continuation of the first, the return of the repressed.

      Thank you for the labor in remembering their story. For forty year, I always hope it turns out differently somehow. I am battle hardened by the reading. A better staff officer and whole.

      Willa von Will, phd.