The Rommel Papers

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0306801574 ISBN13: 9780306801570 Release Date: March 1982 Publisher: Da Capo Press Length: 592 Pages Weight: 1.60 lbs. Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.5" An essential collection of the wartime writings and diary of World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, edited with commentary by one of the great military theorists of our time When Erwin Rommel died-by forced suicide at Hitler's command-he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career and the exact details of his masterly campaigns. It was his custom to dictate each evening a running narrative of the day's events and, after each battle, to summarize its course and the lessons to be learned from it. He wrote, almost daily, intimate and outspoken letters to his wife in which his private feelings and-after the tide had turned-forebodings found expression. To this is added by Rommel's son Manfred the story of the f