Title: Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps (Stackpole Military History Series)
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication Date: 2007-09-10
ISBN: 0811734137
Type: Paperback
Condition: New
Jacket condition: None as issued
Notes: Brand new paperback copy, purchased directly from publisher. Perfect, gift-worthy condition. NO publisher's/remainder mark.
About the Book
- The most famous battles of one of World War II’s most legendary commanders
- Told largely from Rommel’s perspective, using his papers and letters
In a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armored thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II’s toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942. The Axis campaign climaxed in June with the recapture of Tobruk, a triumph that netted 33,000 prisoners and earned Rommel a field marshal’s baton. By fall, however, after setbacks at Alam Halfa and the 2 battles of El Alamein, the Afrika Korps teetered on the brink of defeat, which would come in Tunisia 6 months later.
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