Field Marshal: the life and death of Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, h...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare, running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure and could only resort to overwhelming numbers to bring about his defeat. And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Fuhrer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Above all, he was the quintessential German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass, so that on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction.In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled in a conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime--he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth |
| Beschreibung: | 599 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts |
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Author’s Note 9
Prologue A Fox in the Desert 16
One The Birth of a Soldier 21
Two The Great War 36
Three An Officer of the Reichswehr 82
Four The Third Reich 111
Five Blitzkrieg 136
Six Afrika Korps 179
Seven Tobruk 222
Eight Crusader 272
Nine Der Hexenkessel 307
Ten African Apogee 338
Eleven El Alamein 362
Twelve African Perigee 396
Thirteen The Atlantic Wall 440
Fourteen Invasion and Conspiracy 481
Fifteen The Death of a Field Marshal 524
Epilogue The Legend of the Desert Fox 549
Appendix: Rommel---A Timeline 559
Endnotes 568
Sources and Bibliography 579
Index 587
ALSO BY DANIEL ALLEN BUTLER
“Unsinkable”—The Full Story
of RMS Titanic
The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy
of an Ocean Legend
Warrior Queens—the Queen Mary and
Queen Elizabeth in World War Two
The Age of Cunard—A Transatlantic History, 1939-2003
Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland
and the Allied Triumph in the First World War
The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum
and the Dawn of Militant Islam
The Other Side of the Night:
The Carpathian the Californian, and
the Night the Titanic was Lost
The Burden of Guilt—
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace,
Summer 1914
Shadow of the Sultan’s Realm:
The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire
and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
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