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...North African campaign against Rommel's troops taught Pyle how to write about the dead. A long, impressionistic list of what war was composed of ("blown bridges and dead mules and hospital tents") ended with the words "and of graves and graves and graves...
...melodramas, from The Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954). As his matinee-idol features aged, his performances became comically macabre: his Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962) is a tour de force of nympholeptic longing. In his last decade...
...about the confusion among commanders and the contradictory orders that flowed from German headquarters. Historian Hans-Adolf Jacobsen told the viewers that a major German failure in 1944 in bad intelligence, the Allied Invadors were expected to strike in the Pas-de-Calais, not in Normandy. Stuttgart Mayor Manfred Rommel, whose father Field Marshall Erwin Rommel commanded the German Atlantic defenses, called D-day "one of the various great defeats in history." But Rommel felt no sense of slight. Reminding West Germans that "it was better to lose the war with Hitler than to win it with Hitler," he said...
...there were mistakes and failures on the Allied side, they were insignificant compared with the blunders by the Germans. Not only did Rommel spend D-day speeding through the countryside, not only had the Luftwaffe withdrawn all the planes that were needed in Normandy, but the armored regiments that should have been thrown into the defense of Omaha Beach could not move without direct orders from Hitler, and Hitler's aides refused to wake him before...
...just a feint, that he still had to guard against the real invasion that would occur at Calais. Not until ten hours after the Normandy landings did the first tanks of the 21st Panzer Division go into action against the British, and the British beat them back. When Rommel finally returned to his headquarters that night, he found his chief of staff, Lieut. General Hans Speidel, listening to Wagnerian opera records. One of Rommel's aides protested, but Speidel coolly