re: #239 Occasional Reader

Also, he was a magnificent bastard. I read his book.

Heh — part of the Hollywood-crap in the movie was showing “Rommel’s book” on Patton’s nightstand. The title on the cover was twisted to refer to tanks/armored warfare.

Rommel had been an infantry commander on the WWI Italian front — mountain infantry, IIRC. The book he wrote was titled (something very close to) “The Infantry In Attack”