Knight Gunner: The Memoirs of Lt. Alfred Regeniter, 3rd Battery, Sturmgeschutz - Brigade 276, East and West Prussia, 1944-45 (Armed Forces of the Third Reich. Personal Histories Series)

Very little literature exits on the men of the Artillery group of the German army, almost all volunteers, who manned the assault guns (Sturmgeschutz). This book details the actions of Leutnant Alfred Regeniter, covering the six months between his first and last combats as commander of an assault gun unit. The book covers a six month period from early August 1944 - when the collapse of Army Group Centre undermined the German hold on the Baltic States, exposing East Prussia itself to invasion- up to February 1945 when Regeniter was wounded. After leading his troop in furious battles with the Russians in Lithuania and East Prussia, Regeniter was severely wounded and evacuated on a hospital train.