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... changing sides. Captain Liddell Hart has edited the papers, which are often illustrated with Rommel's own photographs, and in his introduction writes of Rommel's tremendous courage, his extra ordinary energy and his military genius. He was also, Captain ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... South Africa, and he became aide-de-camp to General Rommel. Like greater men, he has written his memories of the war and they now appear under the title With Rommel in the Desert (Harrap. 12s. 6d.). Rommel seems to remain a figure of considerable interest ...
... 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 ...
... lost to the Japanese. We were still reeling from the effects of the surrender of General Klopper at Tobruk with 30,000 troops Rommel had advanced to the very gates of Cairo, and it was very largely the self-sacrifice of the R.A.F. which had temporarily saved ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... graduated from military to political service. It reveals, above all, Alexander's adaptability for the man who gave the quietus to Rommel and marched to the gates of Rome, receiving the surrender of 1 ,000,000 men, has shown in no small measure that he has the ...
... battle in the desert, then Tobruk (an unexplained catastrophe), the loss of all our conquests in Libya and Cyrenaica, and Rommel and Mussolini preparing to ride in triumph by the Nile. It was at this point that Mr. Churchill faced a vote of censure in ...