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

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence ...

The Civil War and World War II abounded in crazy tales of lost treasures. This week, we look at three undiscovered fortunes.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The British were likely aware that some ships of supplies had gotten through, but never imagined that their enemy could recover so quickly and launch an effective ...

Being in the shoes of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the months leading to D-Day must have been a living nightmare: the Allies seemed to be everywhere, preparing to strike from every direction. As the ...

After five novels about conflict in ancient times (Gates of War, etc.), Pressfield effortlessly gives fresh life to wartime romance and the rigors of combat in a superior WWII thriller. Framed as the ...

Manfred Rommel, the former mayor of the German city of Stuttgart and the son of the World War II field marshal dubbed the "Desert Fox," died Thursday in Stuttgart. He was 84 and had suffered from ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adolf Hitler's favorite commander Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" who relentlessly fought allied forces across North Africa in World War Two, was a hopeless romantic, extracts from ...