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...Germany, a country that has found little glory in World War II, one name still carries a hero's laurels: Erwin Rommel, brilliant Desert Fox of North Africa, admired by the Allies, despised by Hitler, who gave him a choice of suicide or execution for his role in the abortive 1944 plot against der Fűhrer (Rommel chose suicide). In West Germany today, streets and military barracks are named for Rommel. Now comes another honor: West Germany's biggest warship, a 4,500-ton guided-missile destroyer will be christened the Erwin Rommel...
...attitude of alarm is understandable. The Germans hadn't yet stalled in Russia, and in Africa, Rommel, the "Desert Fox," was pestering the British back to Tangiers. The Japanese island-hopped across the Pacific...
...November the United States took the offensive against the Germans in Africa, penetrating Oran and pushing Rommel's desert rats before them. On the 23rd, the Crimson lost to Yale, 7-3. Five days later the roof of Boston's Coconut Grove restaurant came crashing down in flames on its hundreds of screaming victims. Five Harvard undergraduates died. But by now Harvard's seniors had little attention to spare for local news. America had tasted blood in North Africa, and beginning in late November thirty members of the class of '43 dropped out of Harvard each week...
...British desperately needed a conquering hero. The British propaganda mills unquesionably did work overtime to glorify Monty. It is equally true that he may have curried fame too eagerly. But it is a well-documented fact that Churchill had for months vainly implored Auchinleck again and again to attack Rommel. More importantly-and unforgivably-Thompson fails to emphasize that, ailing or not, Rommel did live up to his reputation by the brilliant way he feinted and eluded British attacks...
...question that he won an overwhelming victory at El Alamein. And while the British had numerical superiority in men and tanks, it was no staged battle that was fought on the hot desert sands. It was a nightmarish engagement that was won eventually with British guts and skill. Even Rommel himself was appalled by the fierceness of the fighting. He wrote: "Rivers of blood were poured out over miserable strips of land which, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have bothered his head about...