Author: Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811734134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commandersTold largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and lettersIn a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armored thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II's toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942. The Axis campaign climaxed in June with the recapture of Tobruk, a triumph that netted 33,000 prisoners and earned Rommel a field marshal's baton. By fall, however, after setbacks at Alam Halfa and the 2 battles of El Alamein, the Afrika Korps teetered on the brink of defeat, which would come in Tunisia 6 months later.
Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521509718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Martin Kitchen's masterful history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment of the key battles of 1941-3, Rommel's generalship, and the campaign's place within the broader strategic context of the war. He shows that the British were initially helpless against the operational brilliance of Rommel's Panzer divisions. However Rommel's initial successes and refusal to follow orders committed the Axis to a campaign well beyond their means. Without the reinforcements or supplies he needed to deliver a knockout blow, Rommel was forced onto the defensive and Hitler's Mediterranean strategy began to unravel. The result was the loss of an entire army which together with defeat at Stalingrad signalled a decisive shift in the course of the war.
Author: Michael Olive
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811745848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Visual history of Rommel and his Afrika Korps in the desert of North Africa.
Author: David Brock Katz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928248071
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher: Regnery History
ISBN: 162157721X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany—when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend—through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II, after he attempted a failed coup against Hitler. Rommel was a man of contradictions, a soldier who wrote a bestselling book about World War I, a commander who went from commanding Hitler's bodyguard to trying to kill him, a serious military mind who was known for participating in practical jokes. In Desert Fox, author Samuel Mitcham (Bust Hell Wide Open) confronts the truth about Rommel and takes a close look at his military actions and reflections.
Author: Heinz Werner Schmidt
Publisher: Constable Limited
ISBN: 9780094785908
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Originally published in 1973 by White Lion. A first-hand account offering a perspective on Rommel's African campaign. Schmidt was close to Rommel throughout the two years of the campaign and provides details of the military action alongside personal perspectives of fellow-officers.
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811750582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Describes the Desert Fox's preparation for military greatness, his rise to prominence, and his early campaigns in Africa. Recounts the first battles of Germany's notorious Afrika Korps.
Author: David Mitchelhill-Green
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473878772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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This WWII pictorial history illustrates Nazi Germany’s North African campaign, showing life under Rommel through vivid wartime photographs. Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the German Army had focused exclusively on preparations needed to wage war in continental Europe. The threat of an Italian collapse in North Africa in early 1941, however, prompted Hitler to aid his ally by sending an armored blocking force to Libya. Not content to merely thwart the British from capturing Tripoli, Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel harried his inexperienced expeditionary force eastward towards the Nile Delta. With Rommel in the Desert presents a pictorial narrative of the unfolding conflict from the arrival of the Deutsches Afrikakorps until Rommel's departure from the battlefield in March 1943. These rare wartime photographs show daily life in the desert war, with its shifting fortunes and unique challenges. Primarily viewed from the perspective of ordinary combatants, this is their personal record of serving with Rommel in the desert.
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher: Scarborough House
ISBN: 9780812880458
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0275994368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This thoroughly researched book tells the story of Erwin Rommel's legendary desert campaign in North Africa during World War II through the men who served him as staff officers and commanders of divisions, regiments, and battalions.
