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Author : Michael Olive
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811745848
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert Warriors written by Michael Olive and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-11-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual history of Rommel and his Afrika Korps in the desert of North Africa.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811734134
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert War written by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters In 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 : Richard L. Blanco
Publisher : Julian Messner
ISBN 13 : 9780671422455
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Rommel, the Desert Warrior written by Richard L. Blanco and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the World War II career of the "Desert Fox," commander of the German Afrika Corps, finally defeated by the British at el-Alamein.
Author : Desmond Young
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447484819
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Rommel written by Desmond Young and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621578925
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Desert Fox written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just who was Erwin Rommel? War hero or war criminal? Hitler flunky or man of integrity? Military genius or just lucky? Now, bestselling military historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. gets to the heart of the mysterious figure respected and even admired by the people of the Allied nations he fought against. Mitcham recounts Rommel’s improbable and meteoric military career, his epic battles in North Africa, and his fraught relationship with Hitler and the Nazi Party. Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel reveals: • How Rommel’s victories in North Africa were sabotaged by Hitler’s incompetent interference • How Rommel burned orders telling him to commit war crimes • Why it wouldn’t have helped Patton if he really had read Rommel’s book • How Rommel was responsible for the Germans’ defense against the D-Day landing • Why the plot to overthrow Hitler was fatally compromised when Rommel was gravely injured in an Allied attack • The reason Rommel agreed to commit suicide after his part in the plot was discovered by Hitler Mitcham’s gripping account of Rommel’s life takes you through the amazing adventure of the World War II battles in North Africa. Again and again, Rommel outfoxed the Allies—until the war of attrition and Hitler’s blunders doomed the Axis cause. Illustrated with dozens of historical photos, this illuminating biography paints a fascinating and tragic picture of the man known as the Desert Fox.
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081176608X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book South Africans versus Rommel written by David Brock Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Jove Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780515103892
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert War written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Jove Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Windrow
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780850450958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Rommel’s Desert Army written by Martin Windrow and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1976-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert war produced commanders of dash and originality on both sides and the memory of the German commanding general, Erwin Rommel, has endured as the epitome of skill, daring and soldierly integrity. His victories in World War II were brilliant until he was bested by poor health, lack of reinforcements and an opposing commander who was his equal. The contribution of his various troops is detailed in a full order of battle which includes his veteran Afrika Korps and Italian allies, and their uniforms are shown in full color artwork.
Author : Heinz W. Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939482399
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (823 download)
Download or read book With Rommel in the Desert written by Heinz W. Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 1461751586
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert Commanders written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspective on the most famous campaign of the legendary Desert Fox Details on the contributions and animosities of Rommel's subordinates Includes accounts of Tobruk, Gazala, El Alamein, and other battles In Libya and Egypt in 1941 and 1942, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel achieved immortality as the Desert Fox, battling and usually defeating numerically superior enemies. Until now, historians have generally overlooked the talented cast of characters who supported Rommel during this campaign. Distinguished military historian Samuel Mitcham recounts the battles of the Afrika Korps through the men who served Rommel as staff officers and commanders of divisions, regiments, and battalions--soldiers like Ludwig Crüwell and Walter Nehring, two of World War II's best panzer commanders, and Ernst-Günther Baade, who wore a kilt and carried a broadsword into battle.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Scarborough House
ISBN 13 : 9780812880458
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert War written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1984-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Major Donald E. Kirkland
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894217
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Rommel’s Desert Campaigns, February 1941-September 1942: A Study In Operational Level Weakness [Illustrated Edition] written by Major Donald E. Kirkland and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the War in North Africa Illustration Pack - 112 photos/illustrations and 21 maps. This study is a historical analysis to determine why Rommel’s tactical success on the battlefield could not accomplish strategic objectives in North Africa. Rommel’s operations are reviewed from his arrival in North Africa in February 1941 through his last offensive to destroy the British Eighth Army at Alamein in August-September 1942. The study compares his ability to conduct tactical operations with his apparent inability to plan and execute actions at the operational level of war. Rommel’s problems with operational planning are addressed within the scope of campaign planning principles set forth in FM 100-5, Operations, (Final Draft). His planning is expressly judged on how he shaped his operational plans by using the concepts of aims, resources, constraints, and restrictions to conform to strategic guidance. Rommel’s tactical execution is contrasted with his operational performance. This comparison is based on the AirLand Battle tenets of agility, initiative, depth, and synchronization. The study concludes that Rommel’s failure lies in planning operations that exceeded his resources and conducting needless operations that resulted in the loss of the initiative at the decisive point. Rommel’s plans exceeded the strategic objectives desired by the theater strategists. His execution was ultimately defeated by his quest for tactical victories without regard to how they contributed to achieving campaign objectives. Rommel’s weakness at the operational level led to failure to sequence tactical victories to achieve campaign goals. This failure illustrates the importance of understanding how operational art orchestrates tactical activities to achieve strategic objectives within a theater of operations.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567206891
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert Commanders written by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Divisionalso known as the Ghost Divisionwhich 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 itRommel 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 Francemuch 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 : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521509718
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert War written by Martin Kitchen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Desmond Young
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780688067717
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Rommel: Desert Fox written by Desmond Young and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1987-02-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in 1941, the famed British Eighth Army was on the route to victory in North Africa. Just a few months later, this same army was on the verge of total defeat, as the Germans had won victory after victory and were threatening to overrun Egypt and the Middle East. Here is the classic biography of the man who masterminded this great turnabout, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the German Afrika Korps. The man who burned Hitler's order to execute British raiders and who gave Allied prisoners the same food and medical treatment as his German troops. The tough general who personally conducted reconnaissance under fire in an open car while his tank commanders hid in armored turrets. The author of this book, Brigadier General Desmond Young, fought against Rommel in North Africa, was captured by him, and after his release at the end of the war visited Rommel's family and talked with many of his fellow officers. Thus, he is able to tell us about intrigues that went on in the German High Command during the war, he is able to give a blow-by-blow description of such decisive battles as Tobruk and El Alamein, and he is able to give personal anecdotes about Rommel and to sort out the facts from the legends that have sprung up around this extraordinary general.
Author : David Mitchelhill-Green
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473878772
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book With Rommel in the Desert written by David Mitchelhill-Green and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Greatest Victory written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, was the foremost strategist and tactician of his generation, and his defeat of the British forces at the important Libyan port of Tobruk in spring 1942 was the crown jewel of his military campaigns: a victory so stunning it forced a vote of confidence in the Churchill government. Mitcham Jr. (history, Hendersonville State U.) chronicles Rommel's march to Tobruk, noting the leader's ability to discern the best places and times to strike. He includes several maps and bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
