[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] *Foreword by General Wesley K. Clark *Afterword by General Klaus Naumann Modeled on the acclaimed 'Great Generals' Series, which features the strategy and legacy of famous American generals, 'World Generals' broadens the scope to include the world's finest military leaders. Each volume includes a foreword by General Wesley K. Clark and is coedited with an afterword by a different foreign general. This exciting series opens with ''the Desert Fox,'' the most famous German field marshal in World War II, Erwin Rommel. A hero of the people of the Third Reich and widely respected by his opponents, Rommel proved himself highly adept at blitzkrieg warfare. Both in France and North Africa he consistently outwitted his adversaries through his ability to sense the weak spot in his enemy's deployment and by the pace at which he conducted his operations. Rommel was seriously wounded in France just three days before the aborted attempt on Hitler's life. Rommel subsequently came under suspicion of being involved in the plot and, under pressure, committed suicide. Rommel displayed an outstanding ability to seize the initiative and retain it, and here, Charles Messenger draws on the skills behind this ability for the benefit of modern-day leaders.

This comprehensive overview of the Second World War offers a study of the war's causes and consequences, the objectives and concerns of all combatants, and the events, campaigns, and personalities involved in all theaters of the war.

Product Description: The defining conflicts of world history from the ancient Greeks to the war on terror.

Product Description: This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War -- the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years...read more

Sixty years after D-Day, the famous military operation is broken down into a complete hour-to-hour retelling of events as they unfolded, with maps based on the actual maps the Allies used detailing the complexity of the struggle. 15,000 first printing.

Looks at the history of twentieth-century warfare from the Boer War to the civil war in Bosnia