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- Publication Date
- 2017-12-28
- Pages
- 600
- ISBN
- 9781612005669
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-10
1612005667
ISBN-13
9781612005669
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235082483
Product Key Features
Book Title
Field Marshal : the Life and Death of Erwin Rommel
Number of Pages
600 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Military / World War II, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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This book is a tour de force and easily one of the best that I have reviewed for Arrse. It also defines what a military biography should be - heaven help anyone else planning a biography of Rommel. 5 stars., "A complex man emerges from the pages of "Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel." Author Daniel Allen Butler assesses both the temperament and the battlefield brilliance of World War II Nazi Germany's "Desert Fox" in this 600-page, hardcover book with 16 pages of photographs. The writer describes Rommel as a born leader, superb soldier, devoted husband and proud father. The field marshal is also characterized as being intelligent, instinctive, courageous, compassionate, vain, egotistical and arrogant... In the end, Rommel was compelled to commit suicide at age 52 in 1944, not because he was involved in an assassination plot against Hitler as some would claim, but because he had committed a far greater crime: he had the fortitude to face the Fhrer and tell the truth.", A complex man emerges from the pages of "Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel." Author Daniel Allen Butler assesses both the temperament and the battlefield brilliance of World War II Nazi Germany's "Desert Fox" in this 600-page, hardcover book with 16 pages of photographs. The writer describes Rommel as a born leader, superb soldier, devoted husband and proud father. The field marshal is also characterized as being intelligent, instinctive, courageous, compassionate, vain, egotistical and arrogant... In the end, Rommel was compelled to commit suicide at age 52 in 1944, not because he was involved in an assassination plot against Hitler as some would claim, but because he had committed a far greater crime: he had the fortitude to face the Fhrer and tell the truth., "A complex man emerges from the pages of "Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel." Author Daniel Allen Butler assesses both the temperament and the battlefield brilliance of World War II Nazi Germany's "Desert Fox" in this 600-page, hardcover book with 16 pages of photographs. The writer describes Rommel as a born leader, superb soldier, devoted husband and proud father. The field marshal is also characterized as being intelligent, instinctive, courageous, compassionate, vain, egotistical and arrogant... In the end, Rommel was compelled to commit suicide at age 52 in 1944, not because he was involved in an assassination plot against Hitler as some would claim, but because he had committed a far greater crime: he had the fortitude to face the Führer and tell the truth.", ...an in depth study of a complex man whose battlefield acumen was mixed with blind obedience to Hitler, an obedience he eventually foreswore at the cost of his life., Daniel's biography of Rommel is both educational and entertaining - I didn't know, for example, that he had had some kind of epiphany regarding the true nature of the Third Reich and its evil leader, Adolf Hitler. Fascinating stuff, a brilliant biography of a legend of the second world war., In great detail and with speculation as to the motives and psychology of his hero, Butler recounts the life and battles of Erwin Rommel. Buttressing his book with some archival research, the author relies mostly on Rommel's own diaries and letters edited and published soon after the war--one of this book's strengths., An amazing biopic of Rommel. Only dedicated students of World War II history will have any idea about this charismatic leader - Butler sheds new light on the story of this fascinating man in an extremely readable book.
Dewey Decimal
943.086092
Table Of Content
AUTHOR'S NOTE PROLOGUE A Fox in the Desert 1 The Birth of a Soldier 2 The Great War 3 An Officer of the Reichswehr 4 The Third Reich 5 Blitzkrieg 6 Afrika Korps 7 Tobruk 8 Crusader 9 Der Hexenkessel 10 African Apogee 11 El Alamein 12 African Perigee 13 The Atlantic Wall 14 Invasion and Conspiracy 15 The Death of a Field Marshal EPILOGUE The Legend of the Desert Fox APPENDIX: Rommel--A Timeline ENDNOTES SOURCES
Synopsis
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 again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare, running, 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 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 Führer 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 Führer, 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 tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime - he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth. In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, but assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country, and no dark depths beyond., 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 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 F hrer 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 F hrer, 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 tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime - he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth. In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, but assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country, and no dark depths beyond.
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