Some lessons never lose their power, no matter how much the world changes. Todays Quote of the Day comes from Erwin Rommel: ...

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 ...

A German armored column caught on an open Tunisian road could be destroyed without an enemy tank in sight. Trucks burned. Tanks sat disabled. Supply vehicles vanished in smoke. The battlefield no ...

In May 1940, Erwin Rommel drove the 7th Panzer Division through the Ardennes, crossed the Meuse, and advanced far beyond ...

Erwin Rommel led several German campaigns during the second world war, most notably in north Africa. Late in the war, he was implicated in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. When it failed, Hitler obliged ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

As a teenager, Manfred Rommel was granted a brief leave from his anti-aircraft unit on Oct. 14, 1944, to go home and visit his convalescing father, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The famous “Desert Fox,” ...