Rommel: The Italian Perspective
So what did the Italians think about Erwin Rommel also known as the "Desert Fox" (Wüstenfuchs)? For this Bastian Matteo Scianna looked into various sources including British wire-tapping and interrogation reports, additionally also memoirs. After all the Italians fought with the Afrika Korps, yet, there is rarely any mention about the Italian perspective.
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Scianna, Bastian Matteo: Rommel Almighty? Italian Assessments of the “Desert Fox” during and after the Second World War. The Journal of Military History 82 (January 2018): p. 125-146.
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