If the war does, indeed, turn from an air war to a ground war, Rommel`s theories may well become current: Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. forces in Operation Desert Storm, says the ...

The Life and Campaigns of Erwin Rommel Field Marshal is a new biography by the British author Daniel Allen Butler, better known for his maritime books. Here, Butler covers Rommel’s early life, service ...

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 ...

Three of them—British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and U.S. Gen. George Patton—arrest the imagination nearly 80 years after the guns fell silent.

In “Killing Rommel,” the protagonist -- the word hero does not apply -- is R. Lawrence Chapman, a young officer put in charge of a group of seasoned desert fighters.

The book under discussion in this episode of Talking Books is “South Africans Versus Rommel, the Untold Story of the Desert War in World War 2”. Author David Brock Katz talks to CNBC Africa ...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel devised a diabolical array of defenses to protect the French coastline. Allied forces, however, developed their own innovative countermeasures, which ultimately won the day.