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The Real Rommel
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World War II Study – Case Study North Africa
www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/
Perseverance yields a good overview of the Rommel and Montgomery rival
campaigns in North Africa. Includes brief biographies of each leader,
as well as an appraisal of the use of intelligence in the Desert War.
Books
Knight's Cross: A life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by David
Fraser (HarperCollins, 1995) £12.99
Highly regarded biography that looks at the paradox of a great general
serving an evil cause. Rommel enjoyed a popularity in Germany that rivalled
Hitler's, even though he was not a member of the Nazi party.
The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's defence of Fortress Europe
by Samuel W Mitcham (Praeger, 1997) £21.50
Covers the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy from Rommel's perspective,
from December 1943 until he was critically wounded in 1944.
The Rommel Papers by Erwin Rommel et al (Da
Capo Press, 1982). US edition only.
Rommel's own day-by-day account of the 7th Panzer Division's odyssey through
France to the deserts of North Africa.
Discovering the Rommel Murder: The life and death of the Desert
Fox by Charles F Marshall (Stackpole, 1994) £16.50
Rommel's life, military career and death, described mainly from interviews
with his widow.
Rommel: The trail of the Fox by David Irving
(Wordsworth Military Library, 1999) £4.99
By an author whose credentials as a historian have been widely questioned,
this account relies on original material from the period, including an
old personnel file, and diaries dictated day-by-day to an army corporal
during the North Africa Campaign.
Films
That's The Desert Fox: The story of Rommel (1951)
Directed byHenry Hathaway
Biopic about Rommel's career after the North African campaign, including
his work on the defences of Fortress Europe as well as his alleged part
in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent suicide.
Afrika Korps (1942)
Edited together from original German Second World War footage by International
Historical Films, it tells the story of Rommel's North African campaign
of 1942 from the Nazi propaganda perspective.
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