Erwin Rommel

The mastery displayed in knocking off Saddam, Boot gushed, made "fabled generals such as Erwin Rommel and Heinz Guderian seem positively incompetent by comparison."

Archive 2008-08-01 Michael Caddell 2008

The United States and Britain took just 26 days to conquer Iraq (a country 80 percent of the size of France), at a cost of 161 dead, making fabled generals such as Erwin Rommel and Heinz Guderian seem positively incompetent by comparison. "

t r u t h o u t 2010

The United States and Britain took just 26 days to conquer Iraq (a country 80 percent of the size of France), at a cost of 161 dead, making fabled generals such as Erwin Rommel and Heinz Guderian seem positively incompetent by comparison. "

Signs of the Times 2010

They had risen largely as a result of the attrition—by death in field, capture, dismissal and, in the case of Erwin Rommel, forced suicide—of the more brilliant officers who had greater success in the field.

Fearsome Days Giles MacDonogh 2011

The following year German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox," attacked and took the city for the Nazis.

From Libya: History, crowded sidewalks in Benghazi 2011

Panzer general Erwin Rommel and the nucleus of his newly formed Afrika Korps were landing in Tripoli.

Libya's history warns us of the dangers on the road to Ras Lanuf 2011

A remarkable judgment, given that the generation included Erwin Rommel (born 1891), Heinz Guderian (1888), and Erich von Manstein (1887), generally credited with devising the plan for the May 1940 attack in the west, and the driving spirit behind some of the most impressive German victories in the east.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

A remarkable judgment, given that the generation included Erwin Rommel (born 1891), Heinz Guderian (1888), and Erich von Manstein (1887), generally credited with devising the plan for the May 1940 attack in the west, and the driving spirit behind some of the most impressive German victories in the east.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Sceptical or not, Hitler dispatched a division and General Erwin Rommel to reinforce Greece against an attack that never came.

Operation Mincemeat, Operation Heartbreak, and The Man Who Never Was 2010

Questions were raised about the moral issue as well as with regard to the appropriateness of leaving the country at a time at which the German General Erwin Rommel was advancing on Egypt.

ATS and WAAF in World War II. 2009