Ebook: Monty and Rommel : parallel lives
Author: Montgomery of Alamein Bernard Law Montgomery, Rommel Erwin, Montgomery of Alamein Bernard Law Montgomery, Rommel Erwin, Caddick-Adams Peter
- Tags: World War 1939-1945 -- Biography., World War 1914-1918 -- Biography., Montgomery of Alamein Bernard Law Montgomery -- Viscount -- 1887-1976., Rommel Erwin -- 1891-1944., Marshals -- Great Britain -- Biography., Generals -- Germany -- Biography., Military biography., World War 1939-1945., World War 1914-1918., HISTORY -- Military -- World War II., Generals., Marshals., Germany., Great Britain.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: The Overlook Press
- City: Great Britain., Germany
- Language: English
- epub
Two men came to personify generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery for the British and Erwin Rommel for the Germans. In the span of a few years, they fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theaters of war. Ever since, historians have assessed their leadership, personalities, and skill. Born four years apart, the two men followed a remarkably similar trajectory. Military historian PeterRead more...
Abstract: Two men came to personify generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery for the British and Erwin Rommel for the Germans. In the span of a few years, they fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theaters of war. Ever since, historians have assessed their leadership, personalities, and skill. Born four years apart, the two men followed a remarkably similar trajectory. Military historian Peter Caddick-Adams explores their lives, beginning with their provincial upbringing and the brutal trench fighting of World War I--where both nearly died. Obsessed with fitness and training, the future field marshals emerged with glowing records. They taught in staff colleges, wrote infantry textbooks, and fought each other as divisional commanders in 1940 before taking charge of their respective armies as the war raged on. This first comparative biography of these two soldiers explores how each was "made" by their war leaders, Churchill and Hitler, and how their strategies permeate down to today's armies.--From publisher description