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...Theodore Ropp Hitler Directs His War: The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences . Selected and Annotated by Gilbert Felix . New York : Oxford University Press , 1950 . Pp. xxiii , 187 . $3.25 . Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign . By Speidel Hans...

...Raymond Callahan The Trail of the Fox: The Search for the True Field Marshal Rommel . By Irving David . New York : E.P. Dutton , 1977 . Pp. 496 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 375 resolved. Ashbery tells him, Every moment is surrounded...

... of things that don t add up to anything that makes sense and these are part of a situation that I feel I m trying to deal with when I m writ­ ing. As a poet, he isn t much clearer when he is writing prose. DURHAM, N.C. HELEN BEVINGTON The Trail of the Fox: The Search for the True Field Marshal Rommel...

... should again concern itself more with swords and less with spades. E. Malcolm Carroll. Hitler Directs His War: The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences. Selected and Annotated by Felix Gilbert. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp. xxiii, 187. $3.25. Invasion 1944: Rommel...

.... Rommel stands at Tobruk and can t get any farther. Out of the hot sky German pilots dive towards the ruins of Benghazi. The blood of young Germans flows in the sands of the desert. The Italians are loafing on the job while the Germans are risking life and limb, and they are disturbed in their siesta only...

... fronts, until June, 1942, there was a relative pause. Rommel s victories in Africa and the second German offensive in Russia did not begin until just after Midway. These battles in the Pacific were not only decisive, they were felt to be decisive at the time. In these months alone naval battles held...

... there is no excuse for his favorite finalize ; as for the rest, it is a precise account of his planning and operational ideas. He makes some comments about the enemy he hated Rommell and respected Runstedt but I am unable to discover the controversial materials which ...

..., it is a precise account of his planning and operational ideas. He makes some comments about the enemy he hated Rommell and respected Runstedt but I am unable to discover the controversial materials which Book Reviews 603 have been found by other reviewers. Montgomery s plain story stands up very well to our best...

... younger than Montgomery, a year older than Hitler, two years older than Eisenhower, and three years older than Rommel. Guderian was the son of a Junker officer. In 1914 he was already at the famous War Academy in Berlin, and he was transferred to the General Staff early in 1918. After the armistice he...

...Donald T. Torchiana The Consciousness of Joyce . By Ellmann Richard . Toronto and New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . Pp. ix , 150 . $10.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 376 The South Atlantic Quarterly more perceptive about Hitler than was Rommel...

... of the Afrika Korps famous General Rommel. This note of gallan­ try was unmistakably an echo from times gone but not forgotten; in the dismal winter of 1942, when the Western world was fighting hard for its precarious life, it seemed somehow wrong to many critics. Not so to Sir Winston. In the sombre wars...

... was produced as a by-product in the manufacture of 1928, in Herty Papers, Box 107, Folder II; Herty to L. L. McDonald, 2 Nov. 1928, Box 111, Folder I; George Rommel to Herty, 3 May, 1929, Box 111, Folder 2; Herty to H. C. Foss, 1 Aug. 1929, Box 111, Folder 3, Herty to C. F. Speh, 8 Oct. 1928, Box 56, Folder 3...

... of errors, such as mistakes in proper names and titles: Durouchail appears as Derechail (p. 81), Laurent as Lorant (p. 82), Re Guerillero as Re guitariero (p. 97), d Entragues as d Entrague (p. 129), kindhearted Dr. Amable Rome as Dr. Rommel (p. 174), Peyrade as Peyerat (p. 241), Chrestien...

... and destructive to the British soldier, who reserves his praise for General Rommel s brilliant but indecisive movements in Libya. Accustomed to thinking in terms of narrow margins, the British have frequently underestimated an enemy and suffered serious losses. The evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 is but one...

... fell on him savagely. He was not so reluctant to scrape up troops for Syria in May, but he had not been forgiven, and he was removed in favor of Auchinleck, who had, from India, sent troops to take Bagdad. Auchinleck, after spending a year preparing attack, came near losing the whole show to Rommel...

... to the Ethiopian outpost of Makalle, surrendered by the Italians in 1896 after a long siege, and again in 1941 when they lost Ethiopia. There, in the sand, a white skull / SINGS . . . Alamein! Alamein! / We shall return (The defeat of Rommel s German and Italian troops at Alamein is said to have marked in 1942...