When Erwin Rommel died by forced suicide at Hitler's command he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career & the exact details of his masterly campaigns. It was his custom to dictate each evening a running narrative of the day's events &, after each battle, to summarize its course & the lessons to be learned from it. He wrote, almost daily, intimate & outspoken letters to his wife in which his private feelings &, after the tide had turned, forebodings found expression. To this is added by Rommel's son Manfred the story of the field marshall's last weeks & the final day when he was given the choice of an honorable suicide or an ignominious trial for treason. An engrossing human document & a rare look at the mind of the Desert Fox, The Rommel Papers throws an interesting light on the Axis alliance & on the inner workings of Hitler's high command.
When Erwin Rommel died by forced suicide at Hitler's command he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career & the exact details of his masterly campaigns. It was his custom to dictate each evening a running narrative of the day's events &, after each battle, to summarize its course & the lessons to be learned from it. He wrote, almost daily, intimate & outspoken letters to his wife in which his private feelings &, after the tide had turned, forebodings found expression. To this is added by Rommel's son Manfred the story of the field marshall's last weeks & the final day when he was given the choice of an honorable suicide or an ignominious trial for treason. An engrossing human document & a rare look at the mind of the Desert Fox, The Rommel Papers throws an interesting light on the Axis alliance & on the inner workings of Hitler's high command.