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Written as the memoir of a British lieutenant, and based on real-life events, this historically and psychologically rich thriller perfectly captures the tension as a team of soldiers in Egypt during World War II attempt to assassinate German Field Marshall Rommel, the infamous "Desert Fox."
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"From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives,...
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Patton and Rommel served their countries through two World Wars. Their temperaments, both on and off the battlefield, were overwhelmingly contrary--but their approach to modern warfare was remarkably similar. Written by a prominent military historian, this book takes a look at both figures, intertwining the stories of the paths they took and the decisions they made during the course of the Second World War--and compares the lives and careers of two...
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1943: Adolf Hitler had just ordered his best commander--the legendary hero of the Afrika Korps--to the Western Front, on a mission to evaluate the strength of the "Atlantic Wall." A model Nazi officer, Erwin Rommel was tough, demanding, and fiercely loyal to the Fuehrer. His job was to defeat the enemy, and he intended to do so at all costs. June 1944: D-Day, British and American forces were hitting Normandy, and the burden of destroying the Allied...
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Fresh look at D-Day, one of World War II's pivotal battles, in time for its 70th anniversary in June 2014; Explains why the U.S. Army suffered enormous casualties on Omaha Beach; Focuses on Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, who oversaw German defenses in Normandy; Covers little-known aspects such as the German patrols tasked with shooting down the pigeons the French Resistance used to send messages to the Allies; Relies on original research, including...
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A stirring World War II combat story of how the legendary George Patton reinvigorated a defeated and demoralized army corps, and how his men claimed victory over Germany's most-feared general, Erwin Rommel. In March 1943, in their first fight with the Germans, American soldiers in North Africa were pushed back fifty miles by Rommel's Afrika Korps and nearly annihilated. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain...
15) The Desert Fox
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Mason plays a smooth Erwin Rommel in this film biography which follows his defeat in North Africa and his disillusionment upon his return to Germany.
16) Rommel
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Tells the story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.