Douglas-Home, Charles (intro. Lord Chalfont), — ROMMEL.

Futura, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 143pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, ex-school library, a biography of the German army commander Erwin Rommel, from his early days in the infantry in 1910 to WW1 and his transfer to a mountain unit in South Hilsen and then the Eastern Front against the Rumanians. in 1917 he was back facing the French at Hilsen by August 1917 he returned to the Carpathians in action against the Rumanians and the Italians, being awarded 'pour le mérite' and promoted Captain. Between the wars the German army was somewhat in the Doldrums but in 1935 Rommel's Mountain Battalion was chosen to provide the guard of honour for the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. When war was declared Hitler asked him w hat command he would like and rommel replieed a panzer division. The account of the Norrth African campaign includes sketch maps of the major battles, Tobruk, Operation Battleaxe, Gazala, Alam Haifa and El Alamein, slight slant to spine, wrappers creased and lightly soiled, edges tanned, library record pasted opposite tile, reading copy,