Rommel's Year of Victory: The Wartime Illustrations of the Afrika Korps by Kurt Caesar
by Lucas, James
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- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1853673021
- ISBN 13
- 9781853673023
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About This Item
Greenhill Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. Hard Cover. 4to 1853673021 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Numerous illustrations. 176 pages clean and tight. The German offensive in North Africa, coupling the prowess of Rommel, The Desert Fox, with the superb elan of the German Afrika Korps, is widely regarded as one of the most astonishing military achievements of World War II. Rommel had been sent to Libya in February 1941 to bail out the Italian Army, whose short-lived invasion of Egypt in the fall of 1940 had been repulsed by the British. His ability to adapt his troops to desert warfare is a textbook example of training and tactics in harsh conditions.German war artist Kurt Caesar traveled with the Afrika Korps and illustrated the campaign with evocative and detailed drawings. Rommel's Year of Victory combines these illustrations with a new, gripping narrative by James Lucas that captures the day-to-day life of the German soldier in the desert.James Lucas served as an infantryman in the Tunisian campaign in World War II. He is an acknowledged expert on the German military history of the period, as well as a widely published military author. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145099
- Title
- Rommel's Year of Victory: The Wartime Illustrations of the Afrika Korps by Kurt Caesar
- Author
- Lucas, James
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1853673021
- ISBN 13
- 9781853673023
- Publisher
- Greenhill Books
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1998
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