To quote William Faulkner, “The past is never dead—it is not even past.” Of no great event is that more true than of World War II, in the shattered debris of which, politically speaking, we are still ...

Erwin Rommel led several German campaigns during the second world war, most notably in north Africa. Late in the war, he was implicated in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. When it failed, Hitler obliged ...

Whether Rommel was one of the "great captains" may be debated, but certainly he had the power of capturing the imagination of his opponents as well as of his countrymen. This translation of his papers ...