The daring exploits of the Afrika Korps secured Rommel a reputation as a brilliant tactician. Dr Niall Barr looks beyond the myth and asks why this legendary commander never achieved a lasting victory ...

Erwin Johannes Rommel was born in 1891 and he joined the German Army as a cadet in 1910. During World War I he served as an infantry lieutenant with the German Army in Italy, Romania and France. For ...

BERLIN — The legend of Erwin Rommel is at the center of a growing controversy surrounding an upcoming TV biopic by one of Germany’s leading production companies. The recently wrapped “Rommel,” ...

While an undergraduate engineering student, Sean Rommel became involved with the Electron Devices Society and sought out its members to present graduate lectures. Today, he will be one of the ...

FRANKFURT — Manfred Rommel, a former mayor of Stuttgart and the son of the World War II field marshal dubbed the ‘‘Desert Fox,’’ has died. He was 84. Mr. Rommel died Thursday. He had suffered from ...

Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane “Desert Fox”, is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf Hitler and the dawning ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Rommel demonstrated how superior leadership can sometimes overcome even material disadvantage. All other things being equal, leadership will trump opponents who might ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The British were likely aware that some ships of supplies had gotten through, but never imagined that their enemy could recover so quickly and launch an effective ...

Winston Churchill, who served with Kitchener in the Sudan before becoming Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, had a favorite analogy for desert combat. He compared it to naval warfare: a contest ...

Erwin Rommel (foreground) is played by Ulrich Tukur in the new film A new film about Erwin Rommel has been shown on German television, depicting the general as a weak man undone by his links to Adolf ...

A new TV film that tarnishes the 'Good Nazi' image of wartime general Erwin Rommel has drawn withering criticism from members of his family... before a scene has even been broadcast. In a letter ...

The daring exploits of the Afrika Korps secured Rommel a reputation as a brilliant tactician. Dr Niall Barr looks beyond the myth and asks why this legendary commander never achieved a lasting victory ...