Summary
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 again, at Normandy in 1944, he pro... Full description
- 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 - a timeline.