num_pages: 576
description: When Erwin Rommel died by forced suicide at Hitler's command he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career &amp; the exact details of his masterly campaigns. It was his custom to dictate each evening a running narrative of the day's events &amp;, after each battle, to summarize its course &amp; the lessons to be learned from it. He wrote, almost daily, intimate &amp; outspoken letters to his wife in which his private feelings &amp;, after the tide had turned, forebodings found expression. To this is added by Rommel's son Manfred the story of the field marshall's last weeks &amp; the final day when he was given the choice of an honorable suicide or an ignominious trial for treason. An engrossing human document &amp; a rare look at the mind of the Desert Fox, The Rommel Papers throws an interesting light on the Axis alliance &amp; on the inner workings of Hitler's high command.
language: English
title: The Rommel Papers
titlecomplete: The Rommel Papers
characters: Erwin Rommel
genres: Historical, Biography, War, Memoir, Nonfiction, Military History, Germany, Military Fiction, History, World War II
ratings_count: 1544
publisher: Arrow Books Ltd.