One of the most distinguished American historians of WWII returns with an outstanding parallel biography of George Patton and Erwin Rommel. The research is thorough, the quality of the writing superb.
After the costly defeat at Kasserine Pass exposed serious weaknesses in American forces, General George S. Patton was sent to North Africa to restore discipline and confidence. Facing the experienced ...
Long before his North African campaigns, Erwin Rommel built his reputation during WW1 as an aggressive stormtrooper officer. On the Italian Front, he led daring infiltration assaults that exploited ...
A rare insight into the military career and personal life of Germany's most famous Second World War commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Told from the perspective of his son Manfred, it tells what ...
Erwin Rommel entered France in 1940 in command of a panzer division, moving around the Maginot Line with the bulk of German attackers and slamming into the French defenses from behind. He would go on ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Adolf Hitler's favorite commander Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" who relentlessly fought allied forces across North Africa in World War Two, was a hopeless romantic, extracts from ...