Rommel: The Desert Fox
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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He was the most celebrated commander of the Second World War — a general so formidable that even his enemies spoke of him with admiration — and Rommel: The Desert Fox is the landmark biography that brought the legend of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to the world. Desmond Young, a British brigadier who faced Rommel's forces across the sands of North Africa and was himself captured during the campaign, presents an authoritative and remarkably intimate portrait of the man behind the myth: his dazzling tactical genius, his chivalrous conduct on the battlefield, and his ultimate fate as a conspirator against Hitler, forced into suicide by the very regime he served. Young's account is both a gripping military history and a deeply human document, chronicling the lightning campaigns of the Afrika Korps with the precision of a soldier and the narrative drive of a born storyteller. Written with unflinching honesty and drawing on interviews with Rommel's family, colleagues, and former adversaries, this biography set the gold standard for wartime portraiture — raising the profound question of how a brilliant, honourable soldier could become so fatally entwined with the machinery of a criminal state.
Author: Desmond Young
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
He was the most celebrated commander of the Second World War — a general so formidable that even his enemies spoke of him with admiration — and Rommel: The Desert Fox is the landmark biography that brought the legend of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to the world. Desmond Young, a British brigadier who faced Rommel's forces across the sands of North Africa and was himself captured during the campaign, presents an authoritative and remarkably intimate portrait of the man behind the myth: his dazzling tactical genius, his chivalrous conduct on the battlefield, and his ultimate fate as a conspirator against Hitler, forced into suicide by the very regime he served. Young's account is both a gripping military history and a deeply human document, chronicling the lightning campaigns of the Afrika Korps with the precision of a soldier and the narrative drive of a born storyteller. Written with unflinching honesty and drawing on interviews with Rommel's family, colleagues, and former adversaries, this biography set the gold standard for wartime portraiture — raising the profound question of how a brilliant, honourable soldier could become so fatally entwined with the machinery of a criminal state.