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Field Marshal the life and death of Erwin Rommel

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 again, at Normandy in 1944, he pro...

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Main Author: Butler, Daniel Allen (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Casemate, 2015.
Subjects:
Rommel, Erwin, > 1891-1944.
Marshals > Germany > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Africa, North.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A fox in the desert
  • The birth of a soldier
  • The Great War
  • An officer of the Reichswehr
  • The Third Reich
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Afrika Korps
  • Tobruk
  • Crusader
  • Der Hexenkessel
  • African apogee
  • El Alamein
  • African perigee
  • The Atlantic Wall
  • Invasion and conspiracy
  • The Death of a Field Marshal
  • Epilogue: The legend of the Desert Fox
  • Appendix: Rommel - a timeline.

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