Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives

Peter Caddick-Adams

ISBN 10: 1590207254 / ISBN 13: 9781590207253

Published by The Overlook Press, New York, 2012

About this Item

Cranberry-colored quarter binding with brown boards. Publishers icon of an elephant stamped/embossed on the bottom front cover. Pages are lightly toned. Text block clean except for remainder mark at the bottom of the book. Square and tight. The DJ is in solid shape with no tears. There is some creasing/puckering at the top of the front panel and the front board edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives
• Publisher: The Overlook Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590207254
• ISBN 13: 9781590207253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

They fought a series of extraordinary battles across several theaters of war that established them as two of the greatest generals of their age. Born four years apart, their lives were remarkably similar--from their shared provincial upbringings to each nearly dying in but emerging from the first World War with glowing war records. They would begin to fight each other as divisional commanders in 1940 and as they came to prominence, first in North Africa, then at the Normandy D-Day allied invasion. Caddick-Adams tracks and compares their military talents and personalities in battle. Monty and Rommel explores how each general was raised to power by their war leaders, Churchill and Hitler, and how the innovative military strategy and thought of both permeate down to today's armies.

About the Author

Peter Caddick-Adams has been a professional military historian for over twenty years and also served for thirty years in the British Army. He was twice deployed on operations as the UK's official historian in Bosnia and Iraq.