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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Now for the first time the private Afrikakorps photograph collection of Rommel’s second in command Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein is presented in this landmark publication. Over 200 photographs showing person- alities battle scenes behind the front line rest periods and non-battle scenery such as a tour of ancient ruins with Rommel are featured. Brought to life here are the famous Afrikakorps personalities such as Rommel Nehring. Cr?well and von Thoma. The Afrikakorps commanders their fighting men the awards for bravery the graves and even mundane military life in the heat of the Libyan desert Bayerlein’s array of photographs depict the war in the Western Desert as he saw it. From his arrival in the Western Desert in October 1941 through his final and bitter departure in May 1943 Bayerlein took hundreds of photographs. This gallery of images unfolds Bayerlein’s rise in rank from an Oberstleutnant under General Cr?well to Generalleutnant under his friend and mentor Erwin Rommel Fritz Dittmar-Bayerlein the General’s nephew and co-author has generously opened his uncle’s photograph collection which had been in storage for over thirty years. Retrace Bayerlein’s steps and the campaigns across the desert sands an undiscovered perspective on the legacy of the vaunted Afrikakorps. (MP)