Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere behind the German lines, Erwin Rommel listened with grim interest to the uproar of British guns and high-domed Albert Kesselring, who designed the bombing of Coventry, brooded over his less than adequate African Luftwaffe. Somewhere behind the Allied lines, tall, affable "Mars" Coningham, R.A.F. chief in the field, guided the performance of his planes. Near by, in a desert caravan, the tough, ubiquitous Bernard Montgomery kept his finger on every unit of the strongest Eighth Army any British general has yet commanded in the long desert campaign...
...Africa Corps was counter attacking desperately all along the 40-mile desert front, fearing that the break-through by Australians at the north end of the line might result in a disastrous turning of the entire German left flank. Berlin reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had gone into the battlefield personally to direct strategy...
...reason for the sudden aerial onslaught on Italy was to blast supply bases and communication lines that serve Erwin Rommel, as Montgomery in Egypt started his attack (see p. 26). But probably far more effective was the shaking it gave to Italian nerves under Benito's waning moon...
...advance into Egypt merely to be thrown out again." So spoke Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...
...Montgomery's second round would develop was the General Staff's secret. It might be a sudden onslaught. It might be other short, sharp jabs. Or it might be a blow at an unexpected spot. Despite the change of wind, no one was discounting the wile of Erwin Rommel...