Rommel
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few military commanders have captured the world's imagination quite like Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Desmond Young's landmark biography presents the most vivid and authoritative portrait of the man the Allies called The Desert Fox. Written by a British general officer who faced Rommel in battle and later sought out those who knew him best, this seminal work chronicles the German commander's meteoric rise from a modest Swabian background to the heights of military legend, tracing his audacious campaigns across France and the scorching battlefields of North Africa with gripping precision. Young illuminates the paradox at the heart of Rommel's story: a brilliant, chivalrous soldier of impeccable personal honour, serving a regime defined by dishonour, whose ultimate fate was sealed by his growing disillusionment with Hitler. Bolstered by a foreword from Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck — one of Rommel's most formidable adversaries — the biography argues compellingly that Rommel transcended the conventional boundaries of enmity, earning the genuine respect of his opponents even as he outmanoeuvred them. Young's prose is authoritative yet deeply human, drawing on extensive interviews with Rommel's family, staff officers, and fellow commanders to construct a narrative that is as much a meditation on the nature of military genius as it is a historical record. First published in 1950, Rommel remains an indispensable text for any serious student of the Second World War — a biography that asks, with quiet urgency, where loyalty ends and conscience must begin.
Author: Desmond Young
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Collins, St. James's Place London
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few military commanders have captured the world's imagination quite like Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Desmond Young's landmark biography presents the most vivid and authoritative portrait of the man the Allies called The Desert Fox. Written by a British general officer who faced Rommel in battle and later sought out those who knew him best, this seminal work chronicles the German commander's meteoric rise from a modest Swabian background to the heights of military legend, tracing his audacious campaigns across France and the scorching battlefields of North Africa with gripping precision. Young illuminates the paradox at the heart of Rommel's story: a brilliant, chivalrous soldier of impeccable personal honour, serving a regime defined by dishonour, whose ultimate fate was sealed by his growing disillusionment with Hitler. Bolstered by a foreword from Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck — one of Rommel's most formidable adversaries — the biography argues compellingly that Rommel transcended the conventional boundaries of enmity, earning the genuine respect of his opponents even as he outmanoeuvred them. Young's prose is authoritative yet deeply human, drawing on extensive interviews with Rommel's family, staff officers, and fellow commanders to construct a narrative that is as much a meditation on the nature of military genius as it is a historical record. First published in 1950, Rommel remains an indispensable text for any serious student of the Second World War — a biography that asks, with quiet urgency, where loyalty ends and conscience must begin.