ROMMEL

Author: Charles Douglas-Home

Publisher: Excalibur

Year published: 1973

Pagination: 224pp, col & b/w photos, map.

Condition: d/w has faded spine, boards and text good.

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The biography of 'The Desert Fox', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the courageous commander of mountain troops in WWI, winning the highest Imperial decoration, the "Pour Le Merite". In WWII he commanded the Ghost Division in France in 1940, the Afrika Korps in North Africa and the defence of Normandy in 1944. After the unsuccessful July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler, Rommel was offered the choice of facing a People's Court and potential persecution of his family, or to commit suicide. He chose the latter and was buried as a national hero