Discovering the Rommel Murder: The Life and Death of the Desert Fox (Stackpole Classics) - Softcover

Marshall, Charles F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811724727 ISBN 13: 9780811724722

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2002

Synopsis

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life. In this intriguing, well-paced tale of a journalistic coup, Marshall, the first to discover the real events behind Rommel's death, tells how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow and delves into the great general's background and death. He arrived at his conclusions based on his intimate knowledge of men on Rommel's staff and his access to Rommel's papers, including letters from the general to his wife. Here, for the first time in paperback, is the exciting story of how the world learned about the way the "Desert Fox" met his death.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles F. Marshall graduated from Columbia University, the U.S. Army's Armored Force Officer Candidate School, and its Military Intelligence School. He served as a captain in the Military Intelligence Service of the U.S. Army during World War II and was decorated for his rapid exploitation of captured enemy maps, field orders, and pertinent documents. At the war's end, he supervised interrogation in POW, internment, and war crime camps. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Douglastown, New York.

From Library Journal:

Marshall claims to have broken the news to the world in 1945 that Rommel had not died of wounds, as claimed by Nazi propaganda, but had been forced to commit suicide. Marshall was the G-2 intelligence officer who first interviewed Rommel's widow. He originally wrote manuscript in 1945-46, but it was lost until now. While probably significant in 1946, this book suffers from trying to pull together the recollections of a 40-year-old story. Because there are no notes or bibliography, the reader has to take Marshall's word for events and conversations that happened long ago. One unexpected bonus is the final few chapters, which give an interesting account of life in occupied Germany at the conclusion of the war. Libraries with strong World War II collections may wish to purchase this, but most would be better off with David Fraser's Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (HarperCollins, 1993).
Randall L. Schroeder, Augustana Coll. Lib., Rock Island, Ill.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0811724727
• ISBN 13: 9780811724722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288