Rommel's Desert Commanders: The Men Who Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-42 Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. Author

by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

2021-04-03 05:05:03

• New perspective on the most famous campaign of the legendary Desert Fox • Details on the contributions and animosities of Rommel's subordinates • Includes accounts of Tobruk, Gazala, El Alamein, and other battles In Libya and Egypt i... Read more
• New perspective on the most famous campaign of the legendary Desert Fox • Details on the contributions and animosities of Rommel's subordinates • Includes accounts of Tobruk, Gazala, El Alamein, and other battles In Libya and Egypt in 1941 and 1942, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel achieved immortality as the Desert Fox, battling and usually defeating numerically superior enemies. Until now, historians have generally overlooked the talented cast of characters who supported Rommel during this campaign. Distinguished military historian Samuel Mitcham recounts the battles of the Afrika Korps through the men who served Rommel as staff officers and commanders of divisions, regiments, and battalions—soldiers like Ludwig Crüwell and Walter Nehring, two of World War II's best panzer commanders, and Ernst-Günther Baade, who wore a kilt and carried a broadsword into battle. Less

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File size5.90(w)x8.90(h)x0.80(d)
Print pages240
PublisherStackpole Books
Publication date August 8, 2008
ISBN9780811735100

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