Rommel S Desert War

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521509718

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Rommel's Desert War by Martin Kitchen Pdf

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 : Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811734137

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Rommel's Desert War by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. Pdf

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 : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811766081

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South Africans versus Rommel by David Brock Katz Pdf

After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommel’s German Afrika Korps in North Africa, the South Africans fought a see-saw war of defeats followed by successes, culminating in the Battle of El Alamein, where South African soldiers made a significant contribution to halting the Desert Fox’s advance into Egypt. This is the story of an army committed somewhat reluctantly to a war it didn’t fully support, ill-prepared for the battles it was tasked with fighting, and sent into action on the orders of its senior alliance partner. At its heart, however, this is the story of men at war.

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781567206890

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Rommel's Desert Commanders by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. Pdf

Perhaps the most famous and admired soldier to fight in World War II was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who achieved immortality as the Desert Fox. Rommel's first field command during the war was the 7th Panzer Division—also known as the Ghost Division—which he led in France in 1940. During this campaign, the 7th Panzer suffered more casualties than any other division in the German Army, at the same time inflicting a disproportionate number of casualties upon the enemy. It took 97,486 prisoners, captured 458 tanks and armored vehicles, 277 field guns, 64 anti-tank guns and 4,000 to 5,000 trucks. It captured or destroyed hundreds of tons of other military equipment, shot down 52 aircraft, destroyed 15 more aircraft on the ground, and captured 12 additional planes. It destroyed the French 1st Armored Division and the 4th North African Division, punched through the Maginot Line extension near Sivry, and checked the largest Allied counteroffensive of the campaign at Arras. When France surrendered, the Ghost Division was within 200 miles of the Spanish border. No doubt about it—Rommel had proven himself a great military leader who was capable of greater things. His next command, in fact, would be the Afrika Korps, where the legend of the Desert Fox was born. Rommel had a great deal of help in France—much more than his published papers suggest. His staff officers and company, battalion, and regimental commanders were an extremely capable collection of military leaders that included 12 future generals (two of them SS), and two colonels who briefly commanded panzer divisions but never reached general rank. They also included Colonel Erich von Unger, who would no doubt have become a general had he not been killed in action while commanding a motorized rifle brigade on the Eastern Front in 1941, as well as Karl Hanke, a Nazi gauleiter who later succeeded Heinrich Himmler as the last Reichsfuehrer-SS. No historian has ever recognized the talented cast of characters who supported the Desert Fox in 1940. No one has ever attempted to tell their stories. This book remedies that deficiency.

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0812880455

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Rommel's Desert War by Samuel W. Mitcham Pdf

Author : Michael Olive,Robert J. Edwards
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811745840

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Rommel's Desert Warriors by Michael Olive,Robert J. Edwards Pdf

Visual history of Rommel and his Afrika Korps in the desert of North Africa.

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811750585

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Triumphant Fox by Samuel W. Mitcham Pdf

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
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473878778

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With Rommel in the Desert by David Mitchelhill-Green Pdf

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 : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0812827848

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Rommel's Desert War by Samuel W. Mitcham Pdf

Author : Heinz Werner Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080711752

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With Rommel in the Desert by Heinz Werner Schmidt Pdf

Author : Desmond Young
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447484813

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Rommel by Desmond Young Pdf

This book contains the story of Rommel, the famous German Field Marshal of World War II, commonly known as Desert Fox. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Ken Delve
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784383893

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Disaster in the Desert by Ken Delve Pdf

Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel’s Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs supplies and for the Allies to be denied supplies. With Malta still active and disrupting the Axis shipping routes across the Mediterranean he is denied those supplies. Meanwhile, the Allied build-up continues, and Montgomery holds at El Alamein and then counter attacks. Rommel is pushed back and then, in a double blow, the Allies land in Tunisia. The collapse of North Africa leads to the invasion of Italy and contributes to the final Axis defeat.But what if Rommel had won?In this alternate history, Ken Delve proposes that with a few strategic changes by the Axis powers and poor decision by Allied Commanders, the outcome of could have been very different. In this scenario, the Allied invasion in Tunisia fails, Rommel defeats Montgomery and seizes Egypt, leaving the Germans well-placed to sweep up through the Middle East, capturing oil installations and joining up with German forces in Russia.

Author : Hans-Otto Behrendt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011681635

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Rommel's Intelligence in the Desert Campaign, 1941-1943 by Hans-Otto Behrendt Pdf

Beskrivelse af hvordan Rommel efter ankomsten til Nordafrika fik opbygget en efterretningstjeneste og af hvordan især radioopklaringen blev af stor betydning, takket være Englændernes mangelfulde sikkerhedsforanstaltninger.

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Jove Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0515103896

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Rommel's Desert War by Samuel W. Mitcham Pdf

Marshal Erwin Rommel smashed through the Gazala line in that fateful year of 1942, and leading his troops to El Alamein. "The Desert Fox" crushed six British commanders before his Afrika Korps were finally overcome by Allied Troops.

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0752423134

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Rommel's War by Martin Kitchen Pdf

The story of the desert war in Africa has been told many times from the allied perspective, but this account sees the conflict through the eyes of Rommel, the 'desert fox'. Kitchen finds that while Rommel undeniably possessed genius, it was propaganda that made him the hero of the German Reich.