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Killing Rommel

Steven Pressfield

1998352 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407040585
  • 2008Transworld Publishers Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780385613880
  • 2008Transworld Publishers Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780385613897
  • 2008W F Howes Ltd. · 405 pages · ENGISBN 9781407419541
  • 2009Howes Limited, W. F. · ENGISBN 9781407447933
  • 2009Penguin Random House · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780553819526
  • 2009BantamISBN 9780767932264

Autumn, 1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance... Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan - to send a small, heavily armed yet highly mobile force behind enemy lines to strike a blow that will stop Rommel's army in its tracks. It is to be called the Long Range Desert Group and its exploits will become the stuff of legend. Based on real events, Steven Pressfield's bold new novel brings to pulse-racing life the ingenuity and daring of this maverick commando unit - a disparate, dedicated 'band of brothers' who sacrificed so much for the sake of freedom.

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ViolenceFrequent

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ThemesWar

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  • Warmoderateunreviewed
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