SOLVED. Adult Memoir: Memoirs of a Panther Tank Commander? [s]

[Stephen]

I came across a you-tube clip of someone's poorly constructed video of a book told by a young German tank commander toward the end of WWII

The playlist is entitled Memoirs of a Panther Tank Commander but there doesn't seem to be a book by that name. (At least not on GoodReads)

This is NOT the Hans Von Luck book. It's from a guy who'd become his tank's commander when the real commander had been killed. The kid is only 20 years old and the first chapter that I can find is called "We Must Surrender to the Americans" No author is cited but the story was fascinating despite the bad AI text-to-voice conversion. The guy and his younger crew are all hiding in a forest looking to break out of an encirclement and make it to the American lines rather than surrender to the Soviets and end up in Siberia somewhere

I'd love to locate the real book but none of the Google searches I tried led me to any gold.

[LoriLovesBooks]

Could it be based on one of the books by Wolfgang Faust?

There are 2 books Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir and The Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945.

There is this review of The Last Panther: https://lcraymentblog.wordpress.com/2.... Some quotes from the review are:

“Faust states his age in The Last Panther’s first page: ‘I commanded a crew of teenagers, who looked upon me as if I was a veteran at the age of twenty.’ “

“The Last Panther discusses the desperate break-out attempt at the Halbe Kessel near Berlin, during the final days and hours of the Third Reich.”

“They wished to surrender to Americans. The Western Allies had always been known for treating prisoners well, while the Soviets were quite the opposite.”

[Stephen]

LoriLovesBooks wrote: "Could it be based on one of the books by Wolfgang Faust?

There are 2 books Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir and [book:The Last Panther - Slaughter of the ..."

Yep it's clearly The Last Panther. It sounds very bleak but it felt like something I should read. Thanks.