Knight's Cross

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6 A masterly essay in military biography.' Lord Chalfont, Guardian 'Consolidates Dávid Fraser's place as a military histórián to be reckoned with.' Henry Stanhope, The Times 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. Dávid Fraser's definitive study brings to Rommel's career not only the insights of an acclaimed biographer, but alsó those of a distinguished soldier. He shows how inspiringly spontaneous and superficially haphazard RommeFs 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 batdes in the First World War. Knighfs Cross is first and foremost the biography... Tovább

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6 A masterly essay in military biography.' Lord Chalfont, Guardian 'Consolidates Dávid Fraser's place as a military histórián to be reckoned with.' Henry Stanhope, The Times 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. Dávid Fraser's definitive study brings to Rommel's career not only the insights of an acclaimed biographer, but alsó those of a distinguished soldier. He shows how inspiringly spontaneous and superficially haphazard RommeFs 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 batdes in the First World War. Knighfs Cross is first and foremost the biography of a soldier, but Rommel reached a position in which he almost inevitably became embroiled in politdcs, including his alleged involvement in the plot to kill Hider, which condemned him in the eyes of the Führer he had served so loyally. Rommel is not, to Dávid Fraser, a flawless hero: his failings as well as his genius are recorded here. But he had that instinct for batde and leadership which set him apart from his contemporaries, and places him among the truly great commanders of history. '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.' TheEconomist Vissza