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...within a month. On July 20, Hitler's own Wehrmacht officers turned against him. Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted under Hitler's conference table a bomb that was supposed to kill the Führer. A shaken and partly deafened Hitler survived to wreak vengeance on the conspirators (even Rommel, who was not directly involved, was forced to take poison) and to add a manic streak to his own supervision...
...German side, Rommel had some 500,000 men strung out along an 800-mile front from Holland to Brittany, and he knew only too well how vulnerable they were. Since the bulk of German power was committed to the Russian front, his 213,000-man Seventh Army, charged with defending Normandy, was an untested force, filled out with middle-aged conscripts and unreliable recruits from Eastern Europe. Only 70,000 of the defenders were stationed near the targeted beaches. The Luftwaffe's fighter defenses had been seriously depleted in two years of air battles, and the remnants were...
...failure, though, was in military intelligence. Apparently because of the bad weather, neither naval patrols nor reconnaissance planes maintained surveillance of the invasion preparations on the crucial last day before the landing. German meteorologists assured their commanders that the storm would prevent any Allied attack, and that prediction prompted Rommel to take a quick trip home. His wife's birthday happened to fall on June 6. When Rommel heard the news from Normandy at his home near Ulm, he could
DIED. Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo...
...Triple, he brilliantly reproduces a distant terrain, complete with sounds and smells and tribal rites. The most romantic of all the top espionage thriller writers, he understands and sensitively portrays the women who come in and out of his cold. When the belly dancer and the courtesan appear onstage, Rommel seems almost irrelevant...