Killing Rommel: An action-packed, tense and thrilling wartime adventure guaranteed to keep you on the...

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Steven Pressfield

Killing Rommel

An action-packed, tense and thrilling wartime adventure guaranteed to keep you on the edge of...

Steven Pressfield

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Bantam
01 July 2009

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

North Africa, 1942- an elite British Army unit is on a deadly mission...

An unputdownable and incredibly evocative military novel full of thrilling battle scenes and flesh and blood characters from Steven Pressfield, author of The Sunday Times Bestseller Gates of Fire.

\""A terrific read...this is historical fiction at its very best.\"" -- JAMES HOLLAND

\""A splendid tour-de-force...it should not be missed\"" -- WASHINGTON POST

\""Both a captivating history lesson and rousing guts-n-glory saga\"" -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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NORTH AFRICA, 1942. AN ELITE BRITISH ARMY UNIT IS ON A DEADLY MISSION.

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, highly mobile fighting 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 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...

By: Steven Pressfield
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780553819526
ISBN 10: 0553819526
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The author of five international bestsellers including the classic Gates of Fire and The Afghan Campaign, Steven Pressfield lives in California.

Reviews for Killing Rommel: An action-packed, tense and thrilling wartime adventure guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat

A terrific read - gripping from start to finish...this is historical fiction at its very best -- JAMES HOLLAND A splendid tour de force, one that brings to life the heroism, sacrifice, tragedy, frustration, fear and - yes - thrill of war * WASHINGTON POST * No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield -- VINCE FLYNN Readers of Steven Pressfield know that his stylish and meticulous novels of battle can rise as far above an often dismal genre as Patrick O'Brian's. After two tales of Alexander the Great, he shifts epochs - without any softening of his flinty, rhythmic and laconic prose - to dramatise an episode of the Desert War in North Africa...Presented as the memoirs of a highly literate publisher, this account of the clandestine operation ""where a single individual might make a difference"" shuns false heroics to paint the true face of irregular war in the wilderness -- Boyd Tonkin * THE INDEPENDENT *