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The gun Rommel turned against Britain's Matilda tanks

Outside Arras, Rommel watches British Matilda tanks push into his lines. His panzers are falling back, and standard anti-tank ...
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The wounded colonel who kept Rommel's tanks at bay

At Outpost Snipe in the October darkness, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Bullock Turner watches a Panzer IV F2 approach. Nineteen ...
Military.com

Erwin Rommel

Erwin Johannes Rommel was born in 1891 and he joined the German Army as a cadet in 1910. During World War I he served as an infantry lieutenant with the German Army in Italy, Romania and France. For ...
The Forward

Erwin Rommel’s Nazi Rebel Role Revisited

Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane “Desert Fox”, is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf Hitler and the dawning ...
BBC

Rommel in the Desert

The daring exploits of the Afrika Korps secured Rommel a reputation as a brilliant tactician. Dr Niall Barr looks beyond the myth and asks why this legendary commander never achieved a lasting victory ...
The National Interest

General Rommel, Not a Tank or Sub, Was Hitler’s Ultimate Weapon

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Rommel demonstrated how superior leadership can sometimes overcome even material disadvantage. All other things being equal, leadership will trump opponents who might ...
The Guardian

The Desert Fox: does it capture the real Rommel?

Erwin Rommel led several German campaigns during the second world war, most notably in north Africa. Late in the war, he was implicated in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. When it failed, Hitler obliged ...