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Knight's Cross (Paperback)
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Knight's Cross (Paperback)
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Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Erwin Rommel was the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second
World War, respected, even admired, by his opponents. Here it
seemed to the Allies, was a supremely professional soldier:
chivalrous, decent, largely untainted by the crimes of the Nazi
regime, carrying out his duty with often dazzling success. David
Fraser's definitive study brings to Rommel's career not only the
insights of an acclaimed biographer, but also those of a
distinguished soldier. He shows how inspiringly spontaneous and
superficially haphazard Rommel's style of leadership could be; how
his hallmarks of boldness of manoeuvre, ferocity in attack and
tenacity in pursuit, which characterised his great campaign in
North Africa, were evident from his earliest battles in the First
World War. Knight's Cross is first and foremost hte biography of a
soldier, but Rommel reached a position in which he almost
inevitably became embroiled in politics, including his alleged
involvement in the plot to kill Hitler, which condemned him in the
eyes of the Fuhrer he had served so loyally. Rommel is not, to
David Fraser, a flawless hero: his failing as well as his genuis
are recorded here. But he had that instinct for battle and
leadership which set him apart from contemporaries, and places him
among the truly great commanders of history.
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