Rommel in North Africa

When Hitler agreed to bolster Mussolini's ailing North African adventure in 1941, he chose battlewise Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to lead the newly-formed Afrika Korps. A cunning tactician, Rommel had already led the Nazi invasion of France. In his new theater, he quickly earned the adoration of his men and a flattering nickname from his foes--"The Desert Fox." Drawing on rich archival sources in the U.S. and Europe, author Dave Lande explains how Rommel used his military genius to not only inflict heavy casualties, but even defeat numerically superior Allied forces. This generously illustrated history also examines the circumstances and the Allied tactics that conspired to ultimately defeat Rommel in 1944.