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Author : Charles F. Marshall
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811742788
Marshall recounts how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow while delving into the great general's background and death.
Author : Peter Caddick-Adams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409050926
Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theatres of war which established them as two of the greatest captains of their age. Our understanding of leadership in battle was altered for ever by their electrifying personal qualities. Ever since, historians have assessed their outstanding leadership, personalities and skill. The careers of both began on the periphery of the military establishment and represent the first time military commanders proactively and systematically used (and were used by) the media as they came to prominence, first in North Africa, then in Normandy. Dynamic and forward-thinking, their lives also represent a study of pride, propaganda and nostalgia. Caddick-Adams tracks and compares their military talents and personalities in battle. Each brought something special to their commands. Rommel's breathtaking advance in May-June 1940 was nothing less than inspired. Montgomery is a gift for leadership gurus in the way he took over a demoralised Eighth Army in August 1942 and led it to victory just two months later. This compelling work is both scholarly and entertaining and marks the debut of a major new talent in historical biography.
Author : Amelia McNutt
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685624316
On June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen assaulted the German held coast of France at Normandy. Some were killed, some wounded, and all of them were changed as the battles raged against Rommel and his defenders. They fell for yards of sandy beaches, for critical roads, bridges, villages, towns, and cities. Together, we will travel to those places, and we will relive all the bravery and horror, all the mistakes and honor, as we learn their stories - Chasing Rommel.
Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612002972
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 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. Above all, he was the quintessential German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass, so that on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Führer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction. In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled in a tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth. In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, but assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country, and no dark depths beyond.
Author : Ian F. Beckett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781593592
How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, seventy years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and chivalrous commander grew to the point where it took on almost legendary proportions, and the legend is still with us today. His apparent support for the plot to remove Hitler from power in 1944 and the manner of his death, committing suicide in order to protect his family from Nazi retribution, further enhanced his image as an honourable, professional soldier.??But does he deserve this legendary status? Can his exploits as a soldier and commander and his conduct of the war be separated from the aggressive aims of Hitler and the Nazis whom he and the German army served???These are among the key questions Ian Beckett and his team of expert contributors seek to answer in this stimulating and timely study of Rommel and his legacy. They look critically at every stage of Rommel's brilliant career, from the early fame he achieved as a daring young officer fighting on the Italian front in the First World War, through his exploits as a panzer leader during the German invasion of France in 1940, and his generalship in the Western Desert when he commanded the German and Italian forces fighting the British. These achievements and the publicity that went with them gave him an extraordinary, perhaps overinflated reputation within Germany and among the opposing Allies.??As featured in Cornwall Today.
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811714624
New look at the notorious Desert Fox of World War II by leading military historians. • Thought-provoking reassessment of the most famous German general of the war • Fresh insights into Rommel's performance in France in 1940, Africa in 1941-42, and Normandy in 1944 as well as his relationship with Hitler and the Nazis
Author : David Mitchelhill-Green
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473878778
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 : Randall Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199927920
Looks at the men who disobeyed Hitler's orders through resistance, thus saving thousands of Allied and German lives, keeping supply lines open, while preserving cities and infrastructure.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UIUC:30112005671307
Author : Tony Patel and John Stretton Weeks
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838590369
General Erwin Rommel’s death and cremation is recorded as taking place in Germany. This book is about his death and burial actually happening in the British Protectorate of Nyasa land which is now called Malawi. It was to here Rommel escaped in October 1944 from Germany using the pseudonym of Meyer. In Africa Rommel left behind a secret family first in South Africa and then in Malawi. Evidence presented in this book has now connected the outstanding similarity of seven different events recorded over an 18 year period. They include evidence given by reliable different sources and still living family members. The most credible and compelling interview included is with a British Barrister-at-Law. Proposals for the ultimate scientific evidence of Erwin Rommel’s final resting place are presented in the book’s conclusion.
Author : William T. Worthington
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Generals
ISBN : 159033275X
Great Military Leaders - A Bibliography with Vignettes
Author : Benoît Lemay
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Germany
ISBN : 1612000967
Few modern military commanders have caught the public's imagination as much as Erwin Rommel, the panzer leader who constantly led from the front, achieving breathtaking success in France and North Africa, and to whose wounding and demise the German failure in Normandy is often attributed. More than sixty years after his death, Rommel still personifies the exemplary ideal of the German soldier, a figure who not only inspires respect for his mastery of warfare but for his reticent relationship with the Nazi regime. In this book, however, Benoît Lemay sheds new light on the man. Based on new research and the discovery of Rommel's private correspondence, Lemay places in question this legendary figure's relationship with the Nazi regime. Contrary to the accepted belief that Rommel held serious reservations toward Hitler, Lemay instead asserts that the "Desert Fox" was in reality a dedicated partisan of the Führer, to whom he remained loyal until the very end. While Rommel's fame and image is in part due to Nazi propaganda, which made of him a "god of war" and a "son of the people," the British also did their part by hailing him as a "great general," in part to excuse their repeated defeats in North Africa. In this compelling and detailed narrative of Rommel's career, Lemay offers the paradoxical history of an exceptional soldier enlisted in the service of a criminal regime. Relying upon international sources, he provides a balanced portrait of the man, discussing both his immediate post-war idolization and the later interpretations excoriating him. As Lemay concludes: "He shared in the larger German tragedy not only because he remained loyal to Hitler, but because, convinced he was performing his military duty, he ignored the non-military consequences of his acts." After the war, his wife declared: 'Thus ends the life of a man who, throughout his whole life, was entirely dedicated to serving his country." The final irony of Rommel's life was that he committed suicide after Hitler discovered that the German Resistance had hoped to elevate him as the new leader of the Reich, not realizing that Rommel himself remained loyal to his Führer. In this work, Lemay, author of the highly acclaimed Manstein: Hitler's Master Strategist, has once again illuminated an important aspect of World War II.
Author : Donal Sexton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135906870
The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War. With an emphasis on the American forces in these theaters, each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation that will allow researchers to navigate through the vast amount of literature on the campaigns fought in these regions with ease. Focusing on all aspects surrounding the U.S. involvement in the Western European and Mediterranean theaters, including politics, religion, biography, strategy, intelligence, and operations, this bibliography will be a welcome addition to the collection of any academic or research library. Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies provide concise, annotated bibliographies to the major areas and events in American military history. With the inclusion of brief critical annotations after each entry, the student and researcher can easily assess the utility of each bibliographic source and evaluate the abundance of resources available with ease and efficiency. Comprehensive, concise, and current—Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies are an essential research tool for any historian.
Author : Patricia Hachten Wee,Robert James Wee
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810853019
This comprehensive volume provides a wealth of information with annotated listings of more than 3,500 titles--a broad sampling of books on the war years 1939-1945. Includes both fiction and nonfiction works about all aspects of the war. Professional resources for educators aligned to the educational standards for social studies; technical references; periodicals and electronic resources; a directory of WWII museums, memorials, and other institutions; and topics for exploration complement this excellent library and classroom resource.
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576076040
This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, but they were soon surpassed by the rigorously disciplined redcoats of Great Britain under Howe and Cornwallis. Ironically, the most effective enemies in the history of the United States were not the leaders of foreign military forces—like Mexico's Santa Anna, Japan's Yamamoto, or Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap. They arose from among its own citizens during the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.