KNIGHT’S CROSS - Softcover

Fraser, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007291469 ISBN 13: 9780007291465

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008

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Title: Knight's Cross <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: David Fraser <>Publisher: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS

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Review:

‘Many books have been written about Rommel. None has been more thoroughly researched or examines his personality and character in more detail than this one... Fraser gets under the skin of this man as well as any biographer ever can.’
The Economist

Synopsis:

Erwin Rommel was the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second World War, respected, even admired, by his opponents. Here it seemed to the Allies, was a supremely professional soldier: chivalrous, decent, largely untainted by the crimes of the Nazi regime, carrying out his duty with often dazzling success. David Fraser's definitive study brings to Rommel's career not only the insights of an acclaimed biographer, but also those of a distinguished soldier. He shows how inspiringly spontaneous and superficially haphazard Rommel's style of leadership could be; how his hallmarks of boldness of manoeuvre, ferocity in attack and tenacity in pursuit, which characterised his great campaign in North Africa, were evident from his earliest battles in the First World War. Knight's Cross is first and foremost hte biography of a soldier, but Rommel reached a position in which he almost inevitably became embroiled in politics, including his alleged involvement in the plot to kill Hitler, which condemned him in the eyes of the Fuhrer he had served so loyally. Rommel is not, to David Fraser, a flawless hero: his failing as well as his genuis are recorded here.But he had that instinct for battle and leadership which set him apart from contemporaries, and places him among the truly great commanders of history.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007291469
• ISBN 13: 9780007291465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640