In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

Erwin Johannes Rommel was born in 1891 and he joined the German Army as a cadet in 1910. During World War I he served as an infantry lieutenant with the German Army in Italy, Romania and France. For ...

The daring exploits of the Afrika Korps secured Rommel a reputation as a brilliant tactician. Dr Niall Barr looks beyond the myth and asks why this legendary commander never achieved a lasting victory ...

Before General George S. Patton became famous in Europe, he proved his worth in the harsh deserts of North Africa. Facing the ...

Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane “Desert Fox”, is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf Hitler and the dawning ...

His reputation has endured as a warrior-gentleman. Known as the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel was said to be feared but respected by the Allied forces who opposed him in the Second World War. However, an ...

As art history professors teach Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Picasso, so too do military history professors teach the masters-Clausewitz, Sherman, Napoleon, Patton. When it comes to desert warfare, they ...