Here for the first time from the German viewpoint and with a great deal
of hitherto unpublished material is the complete story of one of the
most bitterly fought, exciting campaigns in modern warfare. Foxes of the
Desert is the definitive work on the Afrika Korps and the other German
forces who served in the Western Desert and Tunisia during World War II.
Dominating the story are the personality and the brilliant strategy and
tactics of the wily, fast-thinking and hard-hitting Desert Fox, Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel. In fascinating detail the author tells the full
story of the great German master of desert armored warfare and his men
and the other German forces in North Africa, during their many months of
bitterly contested fighting against the pick of Britain's forces under
such commanders as Wavell, Auchinleck, and finally Montgomery, and the
Americans under Eisenhower. Here are the famous siege of Tobruk;
Rommel's celebrated surprise push in the early spring of 1941 when the
Afrika Korps captured Mersa el Brega and Agedabia and rolled on far
eastward into Bardia and Sollum; the battle of Halfaya (Hellfire) Pass;
the great tank battle on the Gazala front; the Germans' capture of
Tobruk, with 33,000 prisoners and vast booty; the fateful battles of
Alam Halfa and El Alamein; and the bloody campaign in Tunisia.
Interwoven are fascinating accounts of the work of the German Secret
Service; of the British Long Range Desert Group, and of its German
counterpart, the Brandenburg Group. Numerous other commando operations
and exciting exploits of espionage and sabotage are described in detail
for the first time. As a result of personal interviews with over a
thousand combatants, tireless reading, and painstaking research, Paul
Carell has skillfully blended a mass of new and exciting information
into a dramatic and completely authentic narrative. As a story of
strategy and battle, Foxes of the Desert is both exhaustive and
engrossing, and, as authorative history, it cannot be overlooked by
anyone wishing a full understanding of World War II. This edition
contains a new preface by Paul Carell who is also the author of
Invasion! They're Coming!, Scorched Earth, Hitler Moves East,
Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army, and Operation Barbarossa
in Photographs.
