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The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's Defense of Fortress Europe by: Samuel W. Mitcham |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542142 EAN: 9780275954840 ISBN: 0275954846 Label: Greenwood Press Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: May 30, 1997 Publisher: Greenwood Press Studio: Greenwood Press Sales Rank: 1486850 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - A MAN WHO COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORYSamuel Mitcham has written an account of the Normandy invasion from the German perspective; in particular that of Erwin Rommel. Probably the most talented of all Germany's army commanders it reveals his limitless energy and resourcefulness to prepare the Atlantic Wall for the forthcoming Allied invasion. From December 1943 when he took over command of Army Group B to his death in October 1944 it follows the unfortunate demise of a great man. His was a thankless task, which he more or less acknowledged from the beginning, but through his misguided loyalty continued to follow the orders of Hitler. After D-Day, and with Hitler's absolute refusal to believe that this was the real invasion and not simply a diversionary assault ... Read More: Rating:  - admire Rommel? this book won't dampen your spiritsMitcham's thoughtfully researched analysis of Rommel's final months reads a bit like hero worship, but the thorough documentation of sources (and quality thereof) makes this a definitive third-party analysis of this period of Rommel's career. Mitcham casts Rommel as strategic seer, chronicling the Field Marshal's workmanlike foretelling of so many Allied tactics that you really do wonder if the U.S. would've been pushed back into the sea at Omaha had Rommel been able to a) properly fortify the coastline and b) bring up the 15th Panzer Division, which stood idle during so much of the crucial fighting in the bocage and on the Cotentin Peninsula. In explaining Rommel's role in the Hitler assassination attempt, Mitcham distances Rommel from direct ... Read More: |
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