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...ROMMEL, THE DESERT FOX (264 pp.) Desmond Young Harper...
...World War II battle commanders to become a legendary figure while the fight was still on was the Germans' stocky, colorful tank expert, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. At home he was idolized. In the field his Afrika Korps fought for him with matchless enthusiasm. Even sweeter to a professional soldier, perhaps, was the respect that he inspired in his enemies. Winston Churchill praised him in the House of Commons while Rommel was in the act of driving the British helter-skelter across North Africa. In the midst of the great North African campaign, General (now Field Marshal) Auchinleck acknowledged...
Biographer Desmond Young, a wartime British brigadier, is too good a soldier to suppose that Rommel was a superman, but his admiration takes him just this side of hero worship. Brigadier Young was captured in North Africa by Rommel's men, had one brief glimpse of his hero, later escaped in time to serve with Auchinleck in India. After the war, Young went to Germany, talked with Rommel's widow, his son Manfred, his fellow officers and his orderly. When Rommel, the Desert Fox was published in England last year, it sold 170,000 copies to a chorus...
Crosses for the Captain. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, son of a Württemberg schoolmaster, was a professional soldier and a good one from the start. At 20, he was graduated from the War Academy at Danzig and commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. Two years later, in August 1914, he went into action in France. Says Biographer Young: "From the moment that he first came under fire he stood out as the perfect fighting animal, cold, cunning, ruthless, untiring, quick of decision, incredibly brave." Rommel emerged from World War I with only the rank of captain...
...German representatives, appointed last week, included Lieut. General Hans Speidel, once Rommel's chief of staff, and Lieut. General Adolf von Heussinger. Both had been arrested by the Gestapo after the discovery of the plot on Hitler's life in July...