Rommel's Lieutenants: The Men Who Served the Desert Fox, France, 1940 (Praeger Security International)

I really like this book and unlike many I read and like, I won't be giving this one away very soon. It was not a ponderous read in most places, but the stories are really so involved with some of the players, I had to retrace my reading steps to catch some things. I plan on getting other books in this series. Was sad to read recently that Rommel's son has now passed away.

This is one of the better books on FM Rommel,and his staff.I would Reccommend it very much.Good for the History technical buffs.Very good staff information

I was misled by the sub-title and hoped to find a book with some detail about the Battle for France. There is virtually none in here. Instead it is a very broad biography of officers who served under Rommel at some point. Many of them began their careers with Rommel in France, but that's where the link to the subject I bought the book for ends.Therefore, if you're looking for brief biographies about generals who knew Rommel this is the book for you. If you're looking for a useful military history of the Battle for France you'll wish you hadn't bought this book. Like me.

I must admitt that I'm a fan of Mr Mitcham's works since he pays so much attention to detail and is so well informed on his subject. Unfortunately, the topic of this book is rather problematic because it covers only a couple of really important figures (Generals von Bismarck, von Zenger und Etterling and, may be, Hanke) the rest being officers who didn't distinguish themselves much in the following years of the war. There are though some good black and white maps, photographs of all the individuals discussed and a nice prologue which explains the political and military system that bred the kind of officers who led the Wehrmacht in astonishing victories in 1939-42. For the dedicated fans of WW II it may be worth the effort and the money, but the majority of the readers will find it rather difficult to force themselves to learn details about obscure German officers.