Panzer Baron: The Military Exploits of General Hasso Von Manteuffel Hardcover – January 1, 1975

This book was written when the BARON WAS STILL ALIVE! As such it is a great Bio.of a great German Commander . Again I SEE NO FLAWS.He was a great commander and he did have flaws.The book did not show them.But then again for a book written 40YRS.ago It's a good read on a general who made the best he could,with what was available to him.

An excellent book written by true professional, who was chivalrous to the end.Wars bring out best and worst on all sides.

I found out about General von Manteuffel while reading some sort of book on World War II and decided that I wanted to know more about him. Luckily, I found out that Mr. Brownlow wrote Panzer Baron and was even able to get a lot of help from the General himself.I decided to obtain the book...then I saw its price and was dissuaded from purchasing it. Again I was lucky enough to find a copy at my local library and it was very good. It is really a general overview of the General's life and rarely digs very deeply into von Manteuffel's actions. There is a fair amount included on the idea that the officers of von Manteuffel's generation failed to take an interest in political events, leading to the rise of Hitler. Overall it was informative and interesting, and kept me invested for the most part. It got a little slow between the World Wars and von Manteuffel's involvement in them.All in all it was a good book but the price makes me glad I was able to check it out from the library.

This was written with the General's involvement and he viewed Brownlow as his biographer. There is much here that can be found no where else in primary sources. Von Manteuffel had editorial control and he did not wish to cover the WW2 incident in which he over rode a court marshal's decision in ordering the execution of a 19-year old for deserting his forward post. This resulted in the ex-General spending 4 months in a West German jail, before being pardoned. While the book was written in the mid-1970s, there is also no coverage of von Manteuffel's days as a lecturer at West Point, in 1968. This is an important work for checking the fabrications of Franz Kurowski (with more than a dozen other pen names) regarding exploits of von Manteuffel. If it's not in the story the General tells here, it probably never happened, or not in the way Kurowski and company have put it down in print in German sources.