Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781612002972
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16pp photos
Pages: 600
ISBN: 9781612005669
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2018
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16 pages of b/w photos
Description:
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare, running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure and could only resort to overwhelming numbers to bring about his defeat. And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich.