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A military historian examines the strategic cunning of Erwin Rommel’s first campaign in North Africa during WWII.

The legend of “The Desert Fox,” German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, was forged in the North African desert conflicts of World War II. It was here, as commander of Germany’s Afrika Korps, that Rommel ignored orders from German High Command and launched his infamous West Desert campaign into Cyrenaica, now eastern Libya.

Driving his exhausted Panzer forces with his indomitable will, Rommel swept through North Africa, where he brought the British Eighth Army to the brink of defeat. Although ultimately curtailed by supply shortages and logistics problems, Rommel nearly claimed the entire region for Hitler.

In this stirring account of Rommel’s first campaign, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. takes the reader into his subject's strategy, mindset and viewpoints.

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ISBN-13:	9780811750585
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/14/2023
Series:	Stackpole Military History Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
Sales rank:	627,952
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., is the author of more than twenty books on World War II. He lives in Louisiana.

Preface vi

Chapter 1 The Rout of the Romans 1

Chapter 2 Erwin Rommel and the Making of a General 11

Chapter 3 The French Campaign 29

Chapter 4 The Birth of a Legend 49

Chapter 5 Tobruk 73

Chapter 6 Battleaxe 85

Chapter 7 The Lull 117

Chapter 8 Sidi Rezegh 131

Chapter 9 The Day of the Dead 151

Chapter 10 The Dash to the Wire 161

Chapter 11 The Retreat to Cyrenaica and the Death of the Frontier Garrisons 175

Epilogue 187

Appendix A Table of Comparative Ranks 189

Appendix B German Staff Positions 190

Notes 191

Bibliography 220

Index 223

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