<li>Unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division <li>What it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front <li>Details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank <p>Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes of a better life. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division. Serving as a gunner in a Panzer IV tank and then a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, Friesen experienced intense combat against the Soviets in Romania, Lithuania, and West Prussia.