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Rommel - The End Of A Legend

Rommel - The End Of A Legend

by RalfGeorgReuth (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the most popular soldier of World War II. Under his leadership the German Afrika Korps advanced all the way to Egypt. Known as the Desert Fox', Rommel was considered invincible. That is the story told in the history books. Ralf Georg Reuth paints a different portrait of Erwin Rommel: a picture of a man who owed his fame in part to Nazi propaganda and whose role in the resistance is still unclear; the image of a soldier, who was promoted by Hitler and who continued to stay true to him until the end, when he committed suicide at the behest of his Fuhrer. His personal fate is the mirror image of the German tragedy of that time: 'to have followed the Fuhrer to the end and to believe that one had thereby done one's patriotic duty.'

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 235
 Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 01 Jan 2009
ISBN 10: 190579195X
ISBN 13: 9781905791958

Media Reviews
'The legend of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - the Desert Fox - is threefold: he was a simple soldier who did his duty and knew nothing of Nazism; he was a commander of superlative talent who ran rings around the British in North Africa in 1941-2; he was a leader of resistance to Hitler who gave his life to the cause after the failure of the July 1944 plot. In this lucid, exemplary volume, Ralf George Reuth shows that all three of these assumptions are false ... and reveals the truth in a brilliant book that, incidentally, exposes the self-serving role of the Cold War West in promoting the Rommel legend.' -Frank McLynn, The Independent
Author Bio
Ralph Georg Reuth was the editor of Goebbels Diaries and is the author of numerous non-fiction works.