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 ...

After Tobruk fell and Rommel surged toward Egypt, the British Eighth Army fell back to El Alamein, where geography and ...

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 ...

Long before Desert Storm, American officers studied the speed, shock, and maneuver warfare pioneered by German commanders ...

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 ...

Winston Churchill, who served with Kitchener in the Sudan before becoming Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, had a favorite analogy for desert combat. He compared it to naval warfare: a contest ...

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 ...

A new TV film that tarnishes the 'Good Nazi' image of wartime general Erwin Rommel has drawn withering criticism from members of his family... before a scene has even been broadcast. In a letter ...

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 ...