- New perspective on the most famous campaign of the legendary Desert
Fox - Details on the contributions and animosities of Rommel's
subordinates - Includes accounts of Tobruk, Gazala, El Alamein, and
other battles In Libya and Egypt in 1941 and 1942, German Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel achieved immortality as the Desert Fox, battling and
usually defeating numerically superior enemies. Until now, historians
have generally overlooked the talented cast of characters who supported
Rommel during this campaign. Distinguished military historian Samuel
Mitcham recounts the battles of the Afrika Korps through the men who
served Rommel as staff officers and commanders of divisions, regiments,
and battalions--soldiers like Ludwig Crüwell and Walter Nehring, two of
World War II's best panzer commanders, and Ernst-Günther Baade, who wore
a kilt and carried a broadsword into battle.