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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Butler, Daniel Allen, author.     Subjects     Rommel, Erwin, 1891-1944.     Marshals -- Germany -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Butler, Daniel Allen, author.       by title:      Field Marshal : the ...         MARC Display

Field Marshal : the life and death of Erwin Rommel / Daniel Allen Butler. by Butler, Daniel Allen, author. Philadelphia, PA : Casemate, 2015. Subjects Rommel, Erwin, 1891-1944.   Marshals -- Germany -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy. ISBN:  9781612002972 : Description:  599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm Contents:  Prologue: A fox in the desert -- The birth of a soldier -- The Great War -- An officer of the Reichswehr -- The Third Reich -- Blitzkrieg -- Afrika Korps -- Tobruk -- Crusader -- Der Hexenkessel -- African apogee -- El Alamein -- African perigee -- The Atlantic Wall -- Invasion and conspiracy -- The Death of a Field Marshal -- Epilogue: The legend of the Desert Fox -- Appendix: Rommel--a timeline. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.5423 Rommel Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.5423 Rommel Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.5423 Rommel Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Biography B Rommel Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Biography B Rommel Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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