Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
Autumn,1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance.
A terrific read - gripping from start to finish..this is historical fiction at its very best -- JAMES HOLLAND
A splendid tour de force, one that brings to life the heroism, sacrifice, tragedy, frustration, fear and - yes - thrill of war * WASHINGTON POST *
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield -- VINCE FLYNN
Readers of Steven Pressfield know that his stylish and meticulous novels of battle can rise as far above an often dismal genre as Patrick O'Brian's. After two tales of Alexander the Great, he shifts epochs - without any softening of his flinty, rhythmic and laconic prose - to dramatise an episode of the Desert War in North Africa...Presented as the memoirs of a highly literate publisher, this account of the clandestine operation "where a single individual might make a difference" shuns false heroics to paint the true face of irregular war in the wilderness -- Boyd Tonkin * THE INDEPENDENT *
A splendid tour de force, one that brings to life the heroism, sacrifice, tragedy, frustration, fear and - yes - thrill of war * WASHINGTON POST *
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield -- VINCE FLYNN
Readers of Steven Pressfield know that his stylish and meticulous novels of battle can rise as far above an often dismal genre as Patrick O'Brian's. After two tales of Alexander the Great, he shifts epochs - without any softening of his flinty, rhythmic and laconic prose - to dramatise an episode of the Desert War in North Africa...Presented as the memoirs of a highly literate publisher, this account of the clandestine operation "where a single individual might make a difference" shuns false heroics to paint the true face of irregular war in the wilderness -- Boyd Tonkin * THE INDEPENDENT *
Steven Pressfield is a bestselling historical novelist whose books include the classic Gates of Fire, Alexander: The Virtues of War and The Afghan Campaign. He lives in Los Angeles.
His official website is www.stevenpressfield.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553819526 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553819526 |
| Title | Killing Rommel |
| Author | Steven Pressfield |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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