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The Knight's Cross was the German Army's highest award for valour, and only 0.04 per cent of the soldiers who served in the Second World War received this prestigious medal; even fewer survived. In this extremely rare memoir, Gunter Halm recounts his experiences with the Afrika Korps where he was employed as a gunner with an anti-tank platoon of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 104 of the 21. Panzer-Division. During the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942 he destroyed seven tanks of the British 23rd Armoured Brigade at Ruweisat Ridge, a deed for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross from the hands of Rommel himself. His courage resulted in him being sent for officer training and, with the rank of Leutnant, was deployed in Normandy as an ordnance officer with Panzergrenadier-Regiment 192\. He was involved in the massacre in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, where he was captured by Allied forces and shipped to a prisoner of war camp in the USA. Desert Knight is a unique book, translated and presented by two highly-regarded historians, which portrays some of the most significant events of the Second World War though the eyes of a humble but courageous German soldier. AUTHOR: Gunter Halm served in the German Army throughout the Second World War, until he was captured in the fighting after D-Day.

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Gunter Halm served in the German Army throughout the Second World War, until he was captured in the fighting after D-Day. Robin Schafer is a German military historian, battlefield guide and published author who has made his specialist study the life of the German soldier in wartime. He has acted as a historical consultant for authors, museums and television companies and is a regular contributor to a number of military history magazines. Peter Doyle is a military historian and author specialising in the understanding of military terrain and of the experience of the soldier of both world wars. .He is Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Heritage Group, a Member of the British Commission on Military History, and is a regular contributor to television.

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