Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Butler, Daniel Allen
Titre(s) : Field Marshal [Texte imprimé] : the life and death of Erwin Rommel / Daniel Allen Butler
Publication : Philadelphia (Pa.) : Casemate, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband
and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical,
and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally
back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored
warfare, running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure
and could only resort to overwhelming numbers to bring about his defeat. And yet for
all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler
at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose successes
blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Above all, he was the quintessential
German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass, so that
on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served
an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned
his oath of allegiance to the Führer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed
into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction. In the end Erwin Rommel
was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled
in a conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime--he dared to tell
Adolf Hitler the truth
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Life and death of Erwin Rommel
Sujet(s) : Rommel, Erwin (1891-1944)
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Opérations militaires -- Afrique du Nord
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.542 3092 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Théâtre des opérations - Afrique - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781612002972. - ISBN 1612002978. - ISBN 9781612005669. - ISBN 1612005667. -
ISBN 9781612002989 (erroné). - ISBN 1612002986 (erroné) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45563028c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45563028
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue: A fox in the desert ; The birth of a soldier ; The Great War ; An officer
of the Reichswehr ; The Third Reich ; Blitzkrieg ; Afrika Korps ; Tobruk ; Crusader
; Der Hexenkessel ; African apogee ; El Alamein ; African perigee ; The Atlantic
Wall ; Invasion and conspiracy ; The Death of a Field Marshal ; Epilogue: The legend
of the Desert Fox ; Appendix: Rommel ; timeline.
