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Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43 (Stackpole Military History) Paperback – December 13, 2006

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Story of the defeat of the legendary Desert Fox

Analyzes Rommel's generalship

Details logistical difficulties and the erosion of weapons quality of the Afrika Korps

In the sands of North Africa during the early years of World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the "Desert Fox." After a string of successes, Rommel's fortunes began to sour with the battles of El Alamein, where the British under Bernard Montgomery halted Axis expansion in the fall of 1942, followed days later by the American landings in Morocco and Algeria. As the Americans drove the Germans into Tunisia from the west and the British from the east, Rommel routed U.S. forces at Kasserine Pass. After his last-ditch attack at Medenine was repulsed, the Desert Fox was forced to evacuate, leaving much of his fabled force to Allied captivity.

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Bruce Allen Watson is professor emeritus at Diablo Valley College and author of several books.

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Stackpole Books (December 13, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811733815
ISBN-13: 978-0811733816
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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ByG. mayson April 3, 2009

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I very much enjoyed this book. His brief overview of the El Alamein battles are more informative than entire books on the battles that I have read. His writing is engaging, concise, and other similar adjectives that I can't think of right now but which can be found in a thesaurus. The bottom line is that the book is entertaining to read instead of being like a spreadsheet of what unit was where or a study in how complex and flitty a sentence can be constructed. I also like the fact that he points out several other of Montgomery's annoying characteristics that I wasn't aware of. One book pointed out that the end result of Market Garden was a long road leading to nowhere. I was wary of this book, being in the Stackpole series of multiple identical books similar to the Ballantine series which are mostly very dry, but it not only covers a topic which I wanted to learn about and about which there are not many books written (unlike D-Day,) but is also good.

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Great history book

ByAnn L. Ogleon February 21, 2010

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WWIII buff loves it.

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Grossly Abundant Typos!

Bynathan buckon July 30, 2012

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The book's content is perfectly good as far as other books I have read about Rommel. However, the readability of this book is nearly terrible when I find obvious typos on every other page that even spellcheck would catch! For instance, on page 128 it says "axtillerymen" instead of "artillerymen." The "X" and "R" keys are not near each other on the keyboard at all! How can such errors make it past the author let alone the editors and still get published?!

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Rommel "Demodernized"

ByReadalotson August 13, 2007

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Bruce Watson's "Exit Rommel" (2007, 220-page paperback) brings a new look to the Desert Fox. This study, significantly researched with 18 pages of endnotes and 6 pages of selected bibliography, presents a contemporary analysis.

Unlike DD Eisenhower or W. Hechmann, Watson positions himself as Rommel admirer. Through eight informative chapters Watson presents the principle battles, the turning points, the psychology of warfare, and the Allies and Axis variables through the North African campaign (1942-43). The Field Marshal's tactical genius, maneuvering brilliance, mistakes, and shortcomings are thoroughly analyzed.

This book speaks to the weaponry used by both sides (considering the advantages and disadvantages for each army's guns, tanks, planes, and mines). The author describes, from primary source information, the obligatory Nazi-ism for all German soldiers (pages 135-38), the myth of Rommel's racism (page 139), and the armies' adaptation to desert fighting (chapter 7). Watson purports the British to be much better prepared (having been stationed in India and Egypt through the prior centuries) than the European landscape trained Germans and the North American terrain trained Americans.

This book reminds that much of Germany's failure in North Africa was due to Hitler's fixation with Russia (invaded also in 1941). The furher cared little for Mussolini's crumbling empire in Africa adding to the Germans' North African debacle. Rommel spends considerable energy, to his leader's chagrin, attempting to secure resupply and replacements from a grudging Berlin high command. Describing the German supply problem Watson invents the term "demodernization" (or "the long term and uneven decline in the ability of Rommel's forces to wage his kind of mobile warfare", page 130).

Watson is a must read for all World War aficionados, military hardware students, Rommel buffs, and those curious about the Second World War in North Africa.

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