Born in 1921 near Wiener Neustadt, Austria s Hans Holler lived an incredible journey through the torments of the Second World War, which takes us forcefully into this unusual autobiography. Within the 15 Panzer Division, initially as a rifleman, he served 20 years with Afrika Korps in Egypt (at Halfaya Pass, trained by the British soldiers of Pass Hellfire ) then in Tobruk, Libya.

Promoted to Lieutenant a year later, in autumn 1942, he was sent as section chief in Tunisia and participated in the one of the last battles of the German troops in African with the 10 Panzer Division. A...