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    OLD FOX, SAME TRICKS

    Jun 04, 2019 2 minutes

    DESERT FOX

    The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel

    By Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. 436 pp. Regnery History, 2019. $29.99.

    BIOGRAPHIES OF ERWIN ROMMEL abound, and any new addition to the tribe must begin with a justification for its own existence. This might be the precise problem with military historian Samuel W. Mitcham It has considerable virtues: smooth prose, clear descriptions of some of World War II’s most complex battles, and a high level of excitement. Mitcham, a scholar of the German war effort, has honed his skills producing works similar to this one for decades; no one should be surprised that is a page-turner.

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