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Title: Knight's Cross : A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by David Fraser ISBN: 0-06-092597-3 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 11 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (25 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Could Have Been Much Better
Comment: Most striking is the book's lack of maps showing theatres of operation and troop movements. Unless you already have a detailed knowledge of every city and town in which Rommel fought, you will find yourself frustrated at trying to visualize what the author is inartfully explaining. They would have been so easy to add! What also jumped out at me was the author's transparent attempt to put Britain on a pedestal to the exclusion of the U.S. I expected a hint of this in light of the author being British but at points it was over done to the point of being silly. If you came into the book with little or no knowledge of WWII, you'd come away with the belief that the U.S. provided, at best, some assistance to Britain in bringing the Third Reich to its knees.
Rating: 2
Summary: No Soul!
Comment: This book COULD have been so much more. A subject of such high drama set against the back-drop of the greatest catastrophe in mankind's history should be an engaging read! Fraser fails to engage the reader. This work seems almost watered down and clumsy. It relates nothing of the MAN who was Erwin Rommel. At times the book reads like a high school text and fails to impart the real flavor of the times or the passions of the characters. After reading it (which took effort as each of the 562 pages dragged by) I felt I knew nothing more about Rommel than a basic chronology of life events and that is the tragedy of this book. To experience how military biography should be written, read Carlo D'este.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Bio Of The "Desert Fox"
Comment: This one is one of the best bio pieces on Erwin Rommel that I have read in a long time. Rommel was indeed a great soilder and a great man(and had he survived the war, I personally believe that he would have been one of the few German generals not to face any war crimes because he treated his adversaries generously and respectfully) and this book clearly shows it.
I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about the "Desert Fox" and what he was all about.
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Title: Patton : Genius for War, A by Carlo D'Este ISBN: 0060927623 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Rommel Papers (Da Capo Paperback) by Erwin Rommel, B. H. Liddell-Hart, Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Liddell Basil Henry Hart ISBN: 0306801574 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Rommel and His Art of War (Greenhill Military Paperbacks.) by Erwin Rommel, John Pimlott ISBN: 1853675431 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rommel: Desert Fox by Desmond Young ISBN: 0688067719 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 18 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hitler: The Pathology of Evil by George Victor ISBN: 1574882287 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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