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Knight's cross : a life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel / David Fraser.

By: Publication details: London : HarperCollins, 1993.Description: xiii, 601 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0002159368
  • 9780002159364
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 355.331092 20
  • 940.5423092 20
LOC classification:
  • DD247.R57 F73 1994x
NLM classification:
  • B/R766f9
Contents:
'Keep the right wing strong' -- The swoop of the falcon -- Gebirgsbataillon -- Pour le merite -- Soldier without politics -- Darkness and dawn -- A personal assignment -- Command from the front -- 'To the last breath of man and baast' -- The ghost division -- Sunflowers in Africa -- 'The seydlitz of the Panzer corps' -- Panzer Gruppe Afrika -- 'Rommel an der spitze!' -- The end of the line -- Watershed -- Curtainfall -- The sunray lamp -- Invasion -- The last battle -- 'For the honour of Germany' -- 'What did Rommel know?' -- A necessary end.
Summary: In any numbering of the great captains of history, the name of Erwin Rommel must stand in the first rank. He was the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second World War, and was respected, even admired, as well as feared by his opponents. Here, it seemed to the Allies, was a supremely professional soldier: chivalrous, decent, untainted by the crimes of the Nazi regime, carrying out his duty with often dazzling success.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) DD 247 .R57 F73 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17208

Includes bibliographical references (pages 568-571) and index.

'Keep the right wing strong' -- The swoop of the falcon -- Gebirgsbataillon -- Pour le merite -- Soldier without politics -- Darkness and dawn -- A personal assignment -- Command from the front -- 'To the last breath of man and baast' -- The ghost division -- Sunflowers in Africa -- 'The seydlitz of the Panzer corps' -- Panzer Gruppe Afrika -- 'Rommel an der spitze!' -- The end of the line -- Watershed -- Curtainfall -- The sunray lamp -- Invasion -- The last battle -- 'For the honour of Germany' -- 'What did Rommel know?' -- A necessary end.

In any numbering of the great captains of history, the name of Erwin Rommel must stand in the first rank. He was the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second World War, and was respected, even admired, as well as feared by his opponents. Here, it seemed to the Allies, was a supremely professional soldier: chivalrous, decent, untainted by the crimes of the Nazi regime, carrying out his duty with often dazzling success.

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