Rommel's last battle : the Desert Fox and the Normandy campaign
(Book)

Includes indexes.

p. 225-227.

1943: Adolf Hitler had just ordered his best commander--the legendary hero of the Afrika Korps--to the Western Front, on a mission to evaluate the strength of the "Atlantic Wall." A model Nazi officer, Erwin Rommel was tough, demanding, and fiercely loyal to the Fuehrer. His job was to defeat the enemy, and he intended to do so at all costs. June 1944: D-Day, British and American forces were hitting Normandy, and the burden of destroying the Allied beachhead fell onto Rommel's shoulders. He had to convince the German High Command that this was the invasion, and that he needed all the panzer divisions available to stop it. The Desert Fox found himself not only in a final bloody battle with his old foe, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, but also in a bitter war against the Fuehrer himself.