WWII troops and vehicles in desert Throughout most of 1941 and 1942, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his famed Afrika Korps were the masters of North Africa with the mobile, hard-hitting style of mechanized warfare the world had come to know all too well - Blitzkrieg. James Dietz's newest release, Rommel - The Desert Fox, portrays this legendary commander as the world knew him then. At the forward edge of a relentless advance, Erwin Rommel surveys the desert before him, seeking yet another opportunity to defeat a beleaguered opponent with ingenuity, audacity and the striking power of the vaunted Afrika Korps. Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel is regarded as one of the greatest field commanders of modern history and, for most of 1941 and 1942, he and his legendary Afrika Korps dominated the stark desert of North Africa from Tunisia to Egypt. Indefatigable, innovative and audacious, Rommel was the master of a new brand of warfare - the mechanized, fast-moving, combined-arms tactics the Germans called blitzkrieg. During the early days of 1942, when Rommel and the Afrika Korps appeared to be an unstoppable tide rising on the British bastion of Egypt, no less a man than Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the remarkable talents of one of Britain's most dangerous foes. Speaking before the House of Commons, Churchill warned, "We have a very daring and skilled opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Erwin Rommel had been a brilliant small unit commander in the First World War, and his grasp of the operational art in World War II was unequaled. Yet, in the end, Rommel was not a victor. With the North African campaign forsaken by his government in order to employ scarce resources on other fronts, he and his Afrika Korps fought not only the combined military might of the British and Americans, but eventual shortages or manpower, fuel, and ammunition as well. Recalled to Germany in March 1943, Rommel would go on to command the German defenses along the English Channel and opposed the Allied landing at Normandy. But it was in the open expanses of North Africa where this genius of the battlefield became a living legend. The reality, and myth, of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel captured the imaginations of supporters, countrymen, and enemies alike Image Size: 30 9/16" x 14 1/2" 500 Public Edition (Limited Edition, Signed and Numbered) 30 Artist Proof Edition (Limited Edition, Signed and Numbered) |
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