Rommel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 12th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, some chipping along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures of the Second World War command as much fascination and controversy as Erwin Rommel — the Desert Fox — whose brilliance on the battlefield earned him the respect of enemies and allies alike. Desmond Young's landmark biography chronicles the life of Germany's most celebrated field marshal, from his early military career through his audacious campaigns across North Africa, where he outmanoeuvred Allied forces with a tactical genius that became the stuff of legend. Young, himself a prisoner of war who once faced Rommel's forces in the desert, brings rare personal authority to this portrait of a commander defined by both extraordinary skill and a complex moral conscience. The biography illuminates the paradox at the heart of Rommel's story — a soldier of honour caught in the machinery of a criminal regime — and raises questions about duty, loyalty, and resistance that resonate long after the final page. Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Rommel remains the definitive account of a man whose life and death continue to captivate historians and general readers alike.
Author: Desmond Young
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Collins
Genre: Biography
Edition: 12th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, some chipping along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures of the Second World War command as much fascination and controversy as Erwin Rommel — the Desert Fox — whose brilliance on the battlefield earned him the respect of enemies and allies alike. Desmond Young's landmark biography chronicles the life of Germany's most celebrated field marshal, from his early military career through his audacious campaigns across North Africa, where he outmanoeuvred Allied forces with a tactical genius that became the stuff of legend. Young, himself a prisoner of war who once faced Rommel's forces in the desert, brings rare personal authority to this portrait of a commander defined by both extraordinary skill and a complex moral conscience. The biography illuminates the paradox at the heart of Rommel's story — a soldier of honour caught in the machinery of a criminal regime — and raises questions about duty, loyalty, and resistance that resonate long after the final page. Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Rommel remains the definitive account of a man whose life and death continue to captivate historians and general readers alike.