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Author: Robert Jackson Publisher: ISBN: 9781539017073 Category : Languages : en Pages : 140
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May, 1944 In occupied France, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is in residence at the Normandy chateau of the Ronsceville family. Following his defeat at the hands of General Montgomery at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942 and the resultant loss of Africa, Rommel still believes that the Allies could be defeated in the Endkampf, the final battle. Rommel's present task is to ensure that the so-called Atlantic Wall is strong enough to throw the Allies back into the sea once the invasion comes. As he knows some time soon, it will come... But General Montgomery isn't finished with Rommel just yet. He has his own plan to defeat the Axis powers. The plan is code-named Overlord but before it can be successful, General Montgomery has one vital task for Callum Douglas of the Special Air Service. Only Rommel might have the courage and skill to destroy Overlord and Montgomery knows this cannot be allowed to happen, whatever the cost. So Callum Douglas finds himself with his most dangerous target yet - Rommel himself... Target - Rommel is a tense historical thriller filled with action and adventure. Praise for Robert Jackson 'The descriptions of weaponry...are authentically detailed.' - Publishers Weekly 'Takes you to the heart of the action.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Cold Kill. Robert Jackson was born in Yorkshire in 1941. A former pilot and navigation instructor, he is now a full-time aviation writer and aerospace correspondent. Among his many books are Fighter! and Air Heroes of World War I , both published by St. Martin's.
Author: Robert Jackson Publisher: ISBN: 9781539017073 Category : Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
May, 1944 In occupied France, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is in residence at the Normandy chateau of the Ronsceville family. Following his defeat at the hands of General Montgomery at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942 and the resultant loss of Africa, Rommel still believes that the Allies could be defeated in the Endkampf, the final battle. Rommel's present task is to ensure that the so-called Atlantic Wall is strong enough to throw the Allies back into the sea once the invasion comes. As he knows some time soon, it will come... But General Montgomery isn't finished with Rommel just yet. He has his own plan to defeat the Axis powers. The plan is code-named Overlord but before it can be successful, General Montgomery has one vital task for Callum Douglas of the Special Air Service. Only Rommel might have the courage and skill to destroy Overlord and Montgomery knows this cannot be allowed to happen, whatever the cost. So Callum Douglas finds himself with his most dangerous target yet - Rommel himself... Target - Rommel is a tense historical thriller filled with action and adventure. Praise for Robert Jackson 'The descriptions of weaponry...are authentically detailed.' - Publishers Weekly 'Takes you to the heart of the action.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Cold Kill. Robert Jackson was born in Yorkshire in 1941. A former pilot and navigation instructor, he is now a full-time aviation writer and aerospace correspondent. Among his many books are Fighter! and Air Heroes of World War I , both published by St. Martin's.
Author: Stephen Wynn Publisher: Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1399007130 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 178
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From a German perspective, the highly decorated and well respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets: a military strategist who thought ‘outside of the box’, a tactic which more than once either brought him an unexpected victory, or saved him from almost certain defeat. His reputation had been gained early in the Second World War, whilst commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the invasion of France, and as the commander of German forces during the North African campaign between 1941 and 1943. Such was his influence not only as a military strategist but on the morale of the men who served under him, as well as that of the German public, that the British government decided it needed to make concerted efforts to try to capture or eliminate him, making Rommel the only German officer of the Second World War that the allied authorities were prepared to put such time, manpower and commitment into eliminating. Two operations were put in to place to try to achieve this: Operation Flipper in November 1941, and Operation Gaff in July 1944. Both operations failed for different reasons, but just three months after the latter of the two operations, Rommel was dead, forced to commit suicide by Adolf Hitler for his part in the attempt to assassinate him on 20 July 1944. Such was the level of Rommel’s popularity and importance that the Nazi authorities reported the cause of his death to be injuries sustained in an attack on his staff car by enemy aircraft. Indeed, it was only after the war that the truth behind his death was revealed.
Author: Ian F. Beckett Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1781593590 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 200
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How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, seventy years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and chivalrous commander grew to the point where it took on almost legendary proportions, and the legend is still with us today. His apparent support for the plot to remove Hitler from power in 1944 and the manner of his death, committing suicide in order to protect his family from Nazi retribution, further enhanced his image as an honourable, professional soldier.??But does he deserve this legendary status? Can his exploits as a soldier and commander and his conduct of the war be separated from the aggressive aims of Hitler and the Nazis whom he and the German army served???These are among the key questions Ian Beckett and his team of expert contributors seek to answer in this stimulating and timely study of Rommel and his legacy. They look critically at every stage of Rommel's brilliant career, from the early fame he achieved as a daring young officer fighting on the Italian front in the First World War, through his exploits as a panzer leader during the German invasion of France in 1940, and his generalship in the Western Desert when he commanded the German and Italian forces fighting the British. These achievements and the publicity that went with them gave him an extraordinary, perhaps overinflated reputation within Germany and among the opposing Allies.??As featured in Cornwall Today.
Author: Steven Pressfield Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0385525397 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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A thrilling WWII tale based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite British special forces unit that took on the German Afrika Korps and its legendary commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox." Autumn 1942. Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English are isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oilfields of the Middle East. With the outcome of the war hanging in the balance, the British hatch a desperate plan—send a small, highly mobile, and heavily armed force behind German lines to strike the blow that will stop the Afrika Korps in its tracks. Narrated from the point of view of a young lieutenant, Killing Rommel brings to life the flair, agility, and daring of this extraordinary secret unit, the Long Range Desert Group. Stealthy and lethal as the scorpion that serves as their insignia, they live by their motto: Non Vi Sed Arte—Not by Strength, by Guile as they gather intelligence, set up ambushes, and execute raids. Killing Rommel chronicles the tactics, weaponry, and specialized skills needed for combat, under extreme desert conditions. And it captures the camaraderie of this “band of brothers” as they perform the acts of courage and cunning crucial to the Allies’ victory in North Africa. Combining scrupulous historical detail and accuracy with remarkable narrative momentum, Pressfield powerfully renders the drama and intensity of warfare, the bonds of men in close combat, and the surprising human emotions and frailties that come into play on the battlefield to create a vivid and authoritative depiction of the desert war.
Author: Ralf Georg Reuth Publisher: Haus Publishing ISBN: 1908323531 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 235
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the most popular soldier of World War II. Under his leadership the German Afrika Korps advanced all the way to Egypt. Known as the Desert Fox, Rommel was considered invincible. That is the story told in the history books. Ralf Georg Reuth paints a different portrait of Erwin Rommel: a picture of a man who owed his fame in part to Nazi propaganda and whose role in the resistance is still unclear; the image of a soldier, who was promoted by Hitler and who continued to stay true to him until the end, when he committed suicide at the behest of his Führer. His personal fate is the mirror image of the German tragedy of that time: to have followed the Führer to the end and to believe that one had thereby done one's patriotic duty.
Author: David Mitchelhill-Green Publisher: Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1526715201 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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Adolf Hitler invaded Western Europe on 10 May 1940. After breaking through the supposedly ‘impenetrable’ Ardennes, Erwin Rommel was at the forefront of the Wehrmacht’s audacious drive through France. Rommel, who had no prior experience leading an armored division in combat, moved with such speed and nerve that he frequently surprised French units by arriving far earlier than expected. Crossing the Meuse River, we follow Rommel—in what he referred to as ‘practically a lightning Tour de France’—as he pushed through northern France to the English Channel. His spectacular victory at the coastal port of Saint-Valéry-en-Caux was crowned by the capture of Cherbourg. Following the armistice, Rommel was involved in reenacting certain battles, such as crossing the Somme, for the documentary Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West). This is the story of Rommel and the 7th Panzer Division—the so-called ‘Ghost Division’—in France, 1940.
Author: Robin Prior Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030023340X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 839
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A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and violent era of history. But how did Britain develop its complex military strategy during these wars, and how were decisions made by those at the top? Robin Prior examines the influence politicians had on military operations, in the first history to assess both world wars together. Drawing uniquely on both military and political archives and previously unexamined sources Prior explores the fraught relationships between civilian and military leaders: from Lloyd George's remarkably interventionist stance on military tactics during the First World War to Churchill's near-constant arguments with American leaders during the Second. Conquer We Must tells the complex story of this military decision-making, revealing how politicians attempted to control strategy--but had little influence on how the army, navy, and air force actually fought.
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