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Rommel and the rebel.
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August 15, 1986|
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Rommel and the Rebel
Rommel and the Rebel, by Lawrence Wells (Doubleday, 415 pp., $17.95)
WHAT, EARLY in World War II, were people to make of the sinister chivalry, the mysterious reputation, and the oddly compelling threat posed by Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox'? After all, it's not every day that Winston Churchill would say to the House of Commons, "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.' Perhaps the prime minister shouldn't have been so gallant as to speak the truth publicly; ...
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