Knight's Cross : A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Rating:
Summary: In A Word -- BORING!
Review: Will not debate the academic merits of the material presented. Love Rommel and was anxious to read this work based on the reviews.

Unfortunately, still only a third of the way through after several months due to the incredibily poor writing style. Some of the worst I have seen. End up reading the same sentence three times just to understand what the author is trying to convey. Very poor, verbose and pretentious writing style. REALLY, REALLY clumbsy and BORING.

With regard to insights into Rommel's life and character, the book started well, describing his early leadership experiences in Italy -- but then seemed to totally disintegrate into generic "overviews" of later campaigns and stopped really providing much insight into Rommel or his personal role in the actions.

Too many other good books out there on WWII to waste any more time on this one. Love the cover though.

With an editor who could write, and a total redo, maybe this work would be worth reading.