Traces the life and career of the successful German officer from his childhood in Southern Germany to his victories in North Africa in 1941

Triumphant Fox

History

Mitcham, Samuel

Africa

Jove

Rommel's Desert War

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. Told largely from Rommel s perspective, using his papers and letters.

Military

Rommel's Last Battle: The Desert Fox and the Normandy Campaign, by Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr.

Rommel's Last Battle

World

This insightful, well-researched book traces the rise and fall of Hitler's air force from the perspective of Hitler's air force.—Publishers Weekly

Eagles of the Third Reich: The Men Who Made the Luftwaffe

Presidio Press

Ride with the Desert Fox as he leads the Afrika Korps to victory.

Rommel's Greatest Victory: The Desert Fox and the Fall of Tobruk, Spring 1942

Erwin Rommel's distinction of being an admired Nazi is owed in part to his brilliance as an old-fashioned soldier and in part to his turning against Hitler late in the war.

Rommel's Greatest Victory

Collectors Guide Third Reich: Eagles 3rd IAL MO

Airlife Publishing Ltd.

The story of history’s greatest military operation and the commanders who nearly led it to success . . . This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turned to winter crisis, including new insights into the invasion’s many tactical successes, as well as its ultimate failure. This objective is massive in scope, because Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was massive in scale, arguably the largest military operation of all time. In the single Battle of Kiev, for example, the Red Army lost over 600,000 prisoners, and twice as many men killed as the United States lost in the entire Vietnam War. The campaign also changed the world forever. Before Barbarossa, Hitler’s Wehrmacht seemed invincible, like an unstoppable force of nature. No one, it seemed, could check the Führer’s ambitions, much less defeat him. (The Battle of Britain, of course, was seen as a defeat for the Luftwaffe rather than the Wehrmacht. The German Army was still undefeated, and it was by no means clear in the spring of 1941 that German pilots would not yet finish off the United Kingdom.) Barbarossa changed all of that. By the end of 1941, Allied victory seemed to be a very real possibility. Few would have bet on it 16 or 17 months earlier. Pitting Germany in total war against the Soviet Union on a 1,000-mile front, Operation Barbarossa was truly staggering in its magnitude. Wars, however, are not fought by numbers, they are fought by men. Very often, writers stereotype German officers into two categories: Prussian gentlemen or Nazi monsters. There were, of course, both—but there were also varying shades of gray. In this book we learn of the goats and heroes, famous commanders and undersung leaders, and about those who were willing to stand up to the Führer and those who subordinated themselves to his will. The result is a book that casts a fresh perspective on one of history’s most crucial military campaigns. Table of Contents Preface I. Setting the Stage II. The Planners III. The Deployment IV. The Frontier Battles V. Battles of Encirclement VI. Stiffening Resistance VII. The Battle of the Smolensk Pocket VIII. The Drive on Leningrad IX. The Battle in the Far North X. The Battle of Kiev XI. The Double Battle of Vyazma-Bryansk XII. The Offensive on the Flanks XIII. To the Gates of Moscow XIV. What Happened to the Men of Barbarossa? Appendix 1 Table of Comparative Ranks Appendix 2 German Staff Positions Appendix 3 German Units, Ranks, and Strengths Appendix 4 Characteristics of Selected Tanks Notes Bibliography Index

The Men of Barbarossa: Commanders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941

Europe

Casemate

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