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Kill Rommel!

Gavin Mortimer | Peter Dennis | Johnny Shumate | Alan Gilliland
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781472801098
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 291g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Feb 2014
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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A detailed, illustrated analysis of the British Commandos’ audacious attempt to assassinate Rommel in 1941.

In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast.

Three men – Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt Robin Campbell and Sgt Jack Terry – stormed the villa, but the German general was nowhere to be found. In the confused fighting Keyes was killed and Campbell wounded; only two raiders would escape, one of whom was Terry.

The raid made headlines round the free world, and Keyes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Yet in truth the raid had been a glorious failure, a mission bedevilled by bad planning and poor intelligence. Even so, crucial lessons were learned, particularly by the Special Air Service – who carried out their first mission on the same night as the raid on Rommel’s HQ.
About Gavin Mortimer | Alan Gilliland | Johnny Shumate | Peter Dennis
Gavin Mortimer is a writer, historian and television consultant whose groundbreaking book Stirling’s Men remains the definitive history of the wartime SAS. Drawing on interviews with more than 60 veterans, most of whom had never spoken publicly, the book was the first comprehensive account of the SAS Brigade. He has also written histories of the SBS, Merrill’s Marauders and the LRDG, again drawing heavily on veteran interviews. He has published a variety of titles with Osprey including The Long Range Desert Group in World War II and The SAS in World War II.

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