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https://pic8.co/sh/KJimic.jpg This is a nice clean shot of Rommel
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This is a nice clean shot of Rommel
Summer 1942: with the Afrika Korps less than a hundred miles from the Nile Delta, Erwin Rommel had succeeded in converting a “sideshow” of the Second World War into a major offensive for the Axis powers. The British had been thrown back across the frontiers of Egypt until, at El Alamein, Rommel’s army posed a serious threat to Cairo, Alexandria, and to the British communications with the Far East. And, in the distance, there lay the rich oil fields of the Middle East. The charisma of the ‘Desert Fox’- his romantic image, his dash and verve- has built up the legend of a heroic man of action and a military genius. His death in the final phases of the war, a martyr to Nazism, further enhanced a reputation that, after the war, grew still more- that of a soldier above politics, an emblematic figure of German chivalry and courage. Kenneth Macksey’s new study of Rommel’s battles and campaigns brings the cool eye of an expert in tank warfare to bear on the military exploits of this legend, and examines critically his achievements and his failures. An opportunist with a well-developed sense for the smell of victory. Rommel was worshipped by his troops. He could inspire them to great efforts, while his tactical flair-amounting even to brilliance on occasion-was well suited to seizing the initiative from British North African forces that were weakly and indecisively led. His offensive during the Spring of 1941 caught the British completely off balance, and his advance in January 1942 to Benghazi and Gazala was, by any standards, a brilliant feat of arms. But the opportunist (off the battlefield as well as in action) was also an arrogantly ambitious man, and a ruthless glory seeker. Therein lay the seeds of his ultimate failure. Rommel:Battles and Campaigns provides a perceptive and incisive analysis of his military operations from the First World War, when he performed outstandingly as a Company and Battalion commander in Rumania, Italy and France, through his North African campaigns, to his command in Normandy and the fatal (though false) implication in the 20 July bomb plot against Hitler. Lavishly illustrated, with maps and photographs, it provides a fresh- and frank- perspective on one of the great legends of military history.
Summer 1942: with the Afrika Korps less than a hundred miles from the Nile Delta, Erwin Rommel had succeeded in converting a “sideshow” of the Second World War into a major offensive for the Axis powers. The British had been thrown back across the frontiers of Egypt until, at El Alamein, Rommel’s army posed a serious threat to Cairo, Alexandria, and to the British communications with the Far East. And, in the distance, there lay the rich oil fields of the Middle East.
The charisma of the ‘Desert Fox’- his romantic image, his dash and verve- has built up the legend of a heroic man of action and a military genius. His death in the final phases of the war, a martyr to Nazism, further enhanced a reputation that, after the war, grew still more- that of a soldier above politics, an emblematic figure of German chivalry and courage. Kenneth Macksey’s new study of Rommel’s battles and campaigns brings the cool eye of an expert in tank warfare to bear on the military exploits of this legend, and examines critically his achievements and his failures.
An opportunist with a well-developed sense for the smell of victory. Rommel was worshipped by his troops. He could inspire them to great efforts, while his tactical flair-amounting even to brilliance on occasion-was well suited to seizing the initiative from British North African forces that were weakly and indecisively led. His offensive during the Spring of 1941 caught the British completely off balance, and his advance in January 1942 to Benghazi and Gazala was, by any standards, a brilliant feat of arms. But the opportunist (off the battlefield as well as in action) was also an arrogantly ambitious man, and a ruthless glory seeker. Therein lay the seeds of his ultimate failure.
Rommel:Battles and Campaigns provides a perceptive and incisive analysis of his military operations from the First World War, when he performed outstandingly as a Company and Battalion commander in Rumania, Italy and France, through his North African campaigns, to his command in Normandy and the fatal (though false) implication in the 20 July bomb plot against Hitler. Lavishly illustrated, with maps and photographs, it provides a fresh- and frank- perspective on one of the great legends of military history.
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