Rommel

“ His magic word is speed, and courage is his most important feature. He shocks the enemy, catches them off guard, follows them, circles them, uses his genius and everything he has; he does not care about night, fog, rivers and obstacles. Thus, his tanks leave long and bloody marks on the map of Europe like a surgeon's scalpel. ”

An officer working in the press desk of the German army described Erwin Rommel with these words after his successes in France with the 7th Panzer Division. The future Desert Fox skillfully displayed his skills and showed how much he dominated tank operations despite his infantry origins. So who was Erwin Rommel, who would turn the French plains upside down and rule the desert sands?

A hunter officer who fought in the French, Romanian and Italian mountains in World War I, a battalion commander and infantry instructor in the interwar period, and in World War II, the commander of the Führer Headquarters Battalion, the 7th Panzer Division, the German Afrika Korps, the Panzer Army Afrika, the Army Group Afrika and finally the General Inspector of Western Defenses. How did he fit so many positions and successes into his half-century long life? How

did he receive the German Empire's highest decoration, the Pour le Mérite? How
did the Rommel family's paths cross with the Ottoman Empire?
Did he really support Hitler?
Was he a dedicated Nazi?
How did he turn Africa upside down?
When did he realize the war was lost?
Was Rommel really behind the July 20th assassination?
In this study, which he wrote by making use of archival documents and contemporary monographs, Selçuk Uygur examines Rommel, one of the great commanders of the 20th century, not only with his military career in the world wars, but also with his relationships with his family and circle, his political thoughts and his humanitarian side. This study, which tells the story of the Desert Fox with the fluidity of a novel, is the most up-to-date and detailed Rommel biography in Turkish.