Rommel’s Last Victory The Battle Of Kasserine Pass

Rommel himself once wrote: ‘Psychologically it is particularly unfortunate when the very first battle of a war ends…(in) a disastrous defeat, especially when it has been preceded by … grandiose predications. It makes it very difficult ever again to restore the men’s confidence’.

There had been ‘grandoise predictions’ of swift victory – the result of the American landings in North Africa. The troops coming ashore gained an easy triumph because they met half-hearted opposition from French soldiers caught in an agonizing dilemma between duty and desire, but in their exultion they overlooked the reason for their quick success. And suddenly there was a disastrous defeat – inflicted by the master himself…………

Martin Blumenson
Hardcover with d/w 341pp George Allen and Unwin Ltd, second impression 1969

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