Killing Rommel
By: Steven Pressfield
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781407419541
Subjects: Fiction; Campaigns; Great Britain; Military campaigns; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. Army. Long Range Desert Group
Description: Autumn, 1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance... Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan - to send a small, heavily armed yet highly mobile force behind enemy lines to strike a blow that will stop Rommel's army in its tracks. It is to be called the Long Range Desert Group and its exploits will become the stuff of legend. Based on real events, Steven Pressfield's bold new novel brings to pulse-racing life the ingenuity and daring of this maverick commando unit - a disparate, dedicated 'band of brothers' who sacrificed so much for the sake of freedom.
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday.