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Author: Zita Steele
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Published: 2016-09-21
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781941184110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperience WWII in color with world-famous military commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. See 130 rare color photos from Rommel's private collection, seized by U.S. forces in 1945. Witness as he travels across colorful terrains, flies a dive bomber, drives over desert battlefields, visits villages. These photos are digitally restored/enhanced.
Author: Zita Steele
Publisher:
Published: 2015-04-05
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781941184059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a journey behind the camera of a world-famous military commander. Experience WWII firsthand from Field Marshal Rommel's private photo collection, seized by U.S. forces in 1945. View 340+ images, including photos Rommel took during campaigns in France and North Africa and others which he collected. Join Rommel in the air and in his command vehicle as he captures majestic desert landscapes, Panzer maneuvers, battlefield action, soldiers on the frontlines, and graves of the fallen. Also included are Rommel's personal photos of family and friends. The photos are digitally restored and enhanced for detail. Some are accompanied by Rommel's own handwritten photo captions. Author and artist Zita Steele uses her knowledge of German language and culture, with in-depth research about Rommel and his campaigns, to provide context for the photos. Zita also analyzes patterns in Rommel's photography to shed a unique light on the artistic personality of this notable military leader. Features include: - more than 340 digitally restored and enhanced photos - historical facts about Rommel and his campaigns - in-depth analysis of photo subject matter and Rommel's compositions - 8x10 size makes book easy to handle and store on shelves - easy-to-read print - illustrations - large, clear photos offer optimum viewing
Author: Zita Steele
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781941184165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a journey behind the camera of a world-famous military commander. Learn about the personal life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. See Rommel's private photo collection, reunified for the first time since 1945. Never-before-seen photos and excerpts from Rommel's private photo albums published for the first time shed light on his important relationships. Witness Rommel's interactions with family, friends, officers and ordinary people. Features: - ideal for collectors and those who want to learn more about Rommel - 275 photos from Rommel's personal photo albums - 125 photos taken by Rommel, including color photos - 100] photos by author Zita Steele - with photos of key places and items in Rommel's life Historical photos are digitally restored and enhanced for detail. Some are colorized. Author and artist Zita Steele traveled through Germany and Austria to gain insights into Rommel's life and experiences. She uses her expertise in social sciences, the study of people, to share new knowledge and insights about the personal life of this notable military leader.
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher: Regnery History
Published: 2019-03-12
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 162157721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust who was Erwin Rommel? War hero or war criminal? Hitler flunky or man of integrity? Military genius or just lucky? Now, bestselling military historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. gets to the heart of the mysterious figure respected and even admired by the people of the Allied nations he fought against. Mitcham recounts Rommel’s improbable and meteoric military career, his epic battles in North Africa, and his fraught relationship with Hitler and the Nazi Party. Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel reveals: • How Rommel’s victories in North Africa were sabotaged by Hitler’s incompetent interference • How Rommel burned orders telling him to commit war crimes • Why it wouldn’t have helped Patton if he really had read Rommel’s book • How Rommel was responsible for the Germans’ defense against the D-Day landing • Why the plot to overthrow Hitler was fatally compromised when Rommel was gravely injured in an Allied attack • The reason Rommel agreed to commit suicide after his part in the plot was discovered by Hitler Mitcham’s gripping account of Rommel’s life takes you through the amazing adventure of the World War II battles in North Africa. Again and again, Rommel outfoxed the Allies—until the war of attrition and Hitler’s blunders doomed the Axis cause. Illustrated with dozens of historical photos, this illuminating biography paints a fascinating and tragic picture of the man known as the Desert Fox.
Author: Franz Kurowski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2010-03-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0811740331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAction-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II. One of the most famous military units of all time under one of the best commanders. The early campaigns in the Western Desert, Tobruk, El Alamein, and more.
Author: Zita Steele
Publisher:
Published: 2015-12-20
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781941184097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a journey to Europe and North Africa behind the camera of famed WWII military commander Field Marshal Rommel. View him and his German and Italian troops from his private photos, seized by U.S. forces in 1945. Over 200 photos show Erwin Rommel's men at work, at leisure, on the move and with him.
Author: Cornelius Ryan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-02-16
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1439126461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. This book, first published in 1959, is a must for anyone who loves history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.
Author: David Mitchelhill-Green
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2017-08-30
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1473892228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErwin Rommel is the arguably the most well-known German general of the Second World War. Revered by his troops and applauded by his enemies, the so-called Desert Fox achieved legendary status for his daring exploits and bold maneuvers during the North African campaign. In this book, richly illustrated with over 400 images, the author examines the privations and challenges Rommel faced in leading his coalition force. Endeavoring to reach the Nile Delta, we find Rommel's Axis soldiers poorly prepared to undertake such an audacious operation. Much-admired by his men in the front lines, we discover a demanding and intolerant leader, censured by subordinate officers and mistrusted by his superiors in Berlin. Certainly no diplomat, we observe posed interactions with Italian and junior German officers through an official lens. We note Rommel's readiness to take advantage of his enemy's weakness and study his extraordinary instinct for waging mobile warfare. We consider his disregard for the decisive factor of supply and view his army's reliance on captured equipment. We learn how this brave and ambitious commander was celebrated by German propaganda when the Wehrmacht's fortunes in the East were waning. Conversely, analyze why Winston Churchill honored him as a daring and skillful opponent. Finally, we picture this energetic, ambitious, at times reckless, commander as he roamed the vast Western Desert battlefield. This is the story of Rommel in North Africa.
Author: Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2015-07-19
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 1612002978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErwin 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.
Author: Gershom Gorenberg
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1610396286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began. War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
