The Desert Fox and the Normandy campaign

Discusses the role of the legendary Desert Fox in establishing resistance to the Allied invasion of Europe and examines Rommel's part in the scheme to assassinate Hitler

This book, first published in 1968, examines the disastrous defeat suffered by inexperienced American troops, newly landed in North Africa, at the hands of Rommel. The news of Kasserine shocked the United States militarily and politically, and led to swift changes in equipment and tactics. This book traces the battle through to its aftermath in ‘a remarkable piece of battlefield investigation’ (Manchester Evening News).

A highly illustrated account of The North African campaign of November 1942-May 1943 during World War II. This campaign was a baptism of fire for the US Army. After relatively straightforward landings, the US II Corps advanced into Tunisia to support operations by the British 8th Army. Rommel, worried by the prospect of an attack, decided to exploit the inexperience of the US Army and strike a blow against their overextended positions around the Kasserine Pass. However, the Germans were unable to exploit their initial success, and later attacks were bloodily repulsed. The fighting in Tunisia taught the green US Army vital combat lessons, and brought to the fore senior commanders such as Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley.

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A gripping thriller dramatizing the final campaign of the Desert Fox - North Africa, 1943. Field Marshal Rommel of the German Afrikakorps is sick and disgraced. He decides on a last victory before Hitler calls him home. The elite Brandenburger unit struggles through the trackless desert to spring a surprise on the lately-arrived Americans and their incompetent, Anglophobic General Fredendall. The only man who might warn the Americans is Colonel Nichols, a very British ex-Oxford don . . .