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The Desert Rats

... Marshal in Rommel-- Desert Fox, reappears briefly but effectively in his old part, in a film which puts the Fox among the Rats. The picture deals with the 242-day defence, of Tobruk, mainly by Australian troops against Rommel's tanks, Rommel's guns and ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 353 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

AT THE CINEMA

... make a film about Field-Marshal Rommel, whose career was nothing if not colourful, and whose end was wrapped in mystery; but the film has come sooner than one expected. For a British audience to look objectively at Rommel-- Desert Fox (produced in Hollywood ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1416 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

THEMES OF WAR AND PEACE: Military Memoirs and assessments

... portant, revealing a profound respect for Rommel's skill and no less respect for Montgomery's caution in exploiting victory to the full; for an error at such a moment, inviting a sharp rejoinder from the redoubtable Rommel, could have cost the Allies dear at ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 815 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE BOAT, a TRAGI-COMEDY of MANNERS

... has written the man's story in the form of a novel. Rommel (Collins. 12s. 6d.) is a biography of the German general by Brigadier Desmond Young, and it has as its purpose the examination of the Rommel legend. Since the publishers enthusiastically claim ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MR. SWINNERTON REMEMBERS: A Fascinating Literary Autobiography; An Examination of Recent English Writing; ..

... the next three books, of which the first is Miss Eliza beth Keyes' biography of her brother, GEOFFREY KEYES, V.C., of the Rommel Raid (Newnes. 21s.). Colonel Keyes was the son of that First World War hero, the late Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes, who ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1508 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

The dancer who loved Grand Dukes

... movements and plans of attack, Rommel planted a spy named John Eppler (Mr. Adrian Hoven) in Cairo in 1942. But for the resource and sagacity of Captain Robertson (Mr. James Robertson Justice), Eppler could have given Rommel the victory at 151 Alamein. other ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1104 | Page: 57 | Tags: Review 

ROMAN TAPESTRY

... uncertainty or exhilaration and these six tales are an indication that she has a bright future. Run for the Roses by Mimi Rommel: Cassell. 25s, is a novel with a lively satirical approach to the situation in which a vast American corporation moves in ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1387 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE SILENT GENERAL: An Estimate of the Campaigns of Wavell

... the outline of disastrous episode, for which the main responsibility is mine, wrote Wavell. He then began to set a trap for Rommel at Tobruk that eventually proved his skilful adversary's undoing. This is a readable book about a General who preserved his ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

LIBYA, THE OASIS KINGDOM: Nina Epton's North African Story

... January 1952, just a year ago, with one flag waving over two capitals, Benghazi and Tripoli. Over this ex-Italian colony, where Rommel and Montgomery fought so relentlessly a decade since, was placed the small, dark and bearded King Idris of the Senussi, the ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

DIPLOMACY AND WAR

... of bitter struggle on, above, and below the Medi terranean in a volume that brings us to the grand climax of Alamein with Rommel at last out numbered, outgunned and faltering for want of supplies of every kind. Here is a picture of the strategy of war ...

Published: Saturday 29 February 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review