During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, was asked his opinion of the movie, "Patton." Abrams, who had served under ...

Caddick-Adams’s book brilliantly captures the lives and the personalities of these two extraordinary men, seamlessly switching from Rommel’s meteoric rise up the German chain of command ...

His book Infantry Attacks, however, which detailed his extraordinary feats of bravery in World War One, ... Rommel's Intelligence in the Desert Campaign by Hans Otto Behrendt (William Kimber, 1985) ...

A man of intellectual arrogance and social insecurity with a contempt for ‘blue bloods’ who dominated top ranks of the ...

”It`s pretty clear that Rommel is one of those who wrote the book on desert warfare,” said Christopher Gabel, a civilian instructor at the Army`s Command and General Staff College in Ft ...

Here, Butler covers Rommel’s early life, service in World War One through to Rommel’s break with Hitler, and death. Butler discusses Rommel’s health, wounds, and family experiences, even including the ...

Local author Jule Selbo is visiting the South Portland Public Library on March 30 at 6 p.m to discuss her new book, “9 Days.” The novel is the second book in the Dee Rommel mystery series set ...