![]() ![]() As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel was to subsequently advance through the ranks to the high command in the Second World War. First published in 1937 it quickly became a highly regarded military textbook, and also brought its author to the attention of Adolph Hitler. In this classic study of the art of war Rommel analyses the tactics that lay behind his success. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War.
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