Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Above all, he was the quintessential German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass, so that on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Führer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction. In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled in a tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime – he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth.
In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, but assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country, and no dark depths beyond.
Daniel Allen Butler
Daniel Allen Butler, a maritime and military historian, is the bestselling author of “Unsinkable”: The Full Story of RMS Titanic, Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War, and The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam. He is an internationally recognized authority on maritime subjects. Butler lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Daniel Allen Butler was educated at Hope College, Grand Valley State University, and the University of Erlangen.
Read more from Daniel Allen Butler
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pearl: December 7, 1941 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe First Jihad: Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Burden of Guilt: How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Field Marshal
Related ebooks
Discovering the Rommel Murder: The Life and Death of the Desert Fox Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rommel: The End of a Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Target Rommel: The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler’s General Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRommel in North Africa: Quest for the Nile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRommel: A Reappraisal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Triumphant Fox: Erwin Rommel and the Rise of the Afrika Korps Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Infantry Attacks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A German Deserter's War Experiences: Fighting for the Kaiser in the First World War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eighth Army in North Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rommel's Afrika Korps: El Agheila to El Alamein Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Men Went to War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Anzac on the Western Front: The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nazi Spies and Collaborators in Britain, 1939–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRommel's Afrika Korps in Colour: Rare German Photographs from the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLionel Morris and the Red Baron: Air War on the Somme Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Luftwaffe: A History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler's War in Africa 1941–1942: The Road to Cairo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt Rommel's Side: The Lost Letters of Hans-Joachim Schraepler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America: Germany's Great War Gamble in the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRommel: In his own words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Muleskinner: The European War of a Niagara Artilleryman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Field Marshal
2 ratings0 reviews