Killing Rommel
by Steven Pressfield
The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa, 1942, on a mission to kill Rommel, told as a British officer's memoir. Pressfield's most restrained novel and a tribute to small-unit professionalism.
Read it if…
you want a World War II novel about competence and decency.
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Skip it if…
you want battle spectacle.
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Three things you will actually use
- Professionalism is a form of courage.
- Respect the enemy who deserves it.
- Small units, long patience.
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Read it; it is short.
Our verdict
Competence and decency.
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