One of the greatest single campaigns of the entire War - -or of any
war - is retold excitingly and well by a German author. It is
General Irwin Rommel's great "Afrika Corps" history of 1941-1942,
in which armies see-sawed back and forth across the Libyan Desert
in a desperate struggle for power in North Africa. Here are the
great battles of Bir Hacheim, of Tobruk and El Alamein. Here are
the officers and men of both sides - -Rommel, Auchinleck, Wavell,
finally, Montgomery - -who daily made history. The side stories
make equally fascinating reading too. The author tells of how
commando groups such as Britain's Long Range Desert Group struck
hundreds of miles behind enemy lines, then "evaporated" into the
burning desert. He tells the Hollywoodish spy stories too, the
accounts of espionage and intrigue in Cairo which included master
spies, beautiful belly dancers, and the beginnings of Nasser's own
plot to overthrow the British in Egypt. The publisher lauds the
author as being "objective". He is not. And from time to time he
lapses into German sentimentality which seems to make the business
of war less gruesome than it is. But his facts are good, his style
clear and dramatic. He does his vast subject justice. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Here for the first time from the German viewpoint and with a great
deal of hitherto unpublished material is the complete story of one
of the most bitterly fought, exciting campaigns in modern warfare.
Foxes of the Desert is the definitive work on the Afrika Korps and
the other German forces who served in the Western Desert and
Tunisia during World War II. Dominating the story are the
personality and the brilliant strategy and tactics of the wily,
fast-thinking and hard-hitting "Desert Fox," Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel. In fascinating detail the author tells the full story of
the great German master of desert armored warfare and his men and
the other German forces in North Africa, during their many months
of bitterly contested fighting against the pick of Britain's forces
under such commanders as Wavell, Auchinleck, and finally
Montgomery, and the Americans under Eisenhower. Here are the famous
siege of Tobruk; Rommel's celebrated surprise push in the early
spring of 1941 when the Afrika Korps captured Mersa el Brega and
Agedabia and rolled on far eastward into Bardia and Sollum; the
battle of Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass; the great tank battle on the
Gazala front; the Germans' capture of Tobruk, with 33,000 prisoners
and vast booty; the fateful battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein;
and the bloody campaign in Tunisia. Interwoven are fascinating
accounts of the work of the German Secret Service; of the British
Long Range Desert Group, and of its German counterpart, the
Brandenburg Group. Numerous other commando operations and exciting
exploits of espionage and sabotage are described in detail for the
first time. As a result of personal interviews with over a thousand
combatants, tireless reading, and painstaking research, Paul Carell
has skillfully blended a mass of new and exciting information into
a dramatic and completely authentic narrative. As a story of
strategy and battle, Foxes of the Desert is both exhaustive and
engrossing, and, as authorative history, it cannot be overlooked by
anyone wishing a full understanding of World War II. This edition
contains a new preface by Paul Carell who is also the author of
Invasion! They're Coming!, Scorched Earth, Hitler Moves East,
Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army, and Operation
Barbarossa in Photographs.
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