Killing Rommel: A Novel | Steven Pressfield

Killing Rommel: A Novel | Steven Pressfield | Awesome Book - Riveting, Couldn't put it down!

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	Killing Rommel: A Novel Steven Pressfield Doubleday, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

He did it again!

Well, I just finished the book today and Mr. Pressfield has done it again. Wow! First off, it moves. The characters are people that can be identified with and I found myself feeling for them too. Maybe it's because of the stories I've heard from my dad or some of what I've read in the past, but everything about it clicked.

You get a feel for the lengths these men went to, just to secure our freedoms. Not just the men, but the women as well. These were pivotal times and it was an entire generation that had to step up, to make it all go our way.

It's all right there, in the pages of Mr. Pressfield's book. The bigger picture was staring everyone in the face. The main characters weren't looking to be heroes, but they became heroes, just by doing what they knew they had to do. They weren't born to be killers, but they knew they would have to do things they hated doing, in order to preserve a future that would maintain values worth keeping. It all comes accross in this fast paced read. You feel like you are along for the ride, and you've got to stay one or two steps ahead of a more than worthy adversary, if you are to come out on top. Steven Pressfield makes you feel as if you are a part of a high stakes game and letting go of north Africa isn't an option.

The ending... I'm not embarrassed to say, brought me to tears. I was actually choked up. Brothers in arms -- who knows the lot of a soldier better than another soldier. You've got to read it to understand it.

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Awesome Book - Riveting, Couldn't put it down!

Pressfield has done it again. A great book that kept me turning the pages and biting my nails. What an awesome story. Told in spare prose with the same putting the reader right in the battle sense from Gates of Fire. This is just a great read. I finished it and wanted to start right over again. There's so much to learn in this novel.

Good read

A good but not a great read. The literary device used is similar to that in Gates of Fire but Killing Rommel is not in the same league. Historically there is little to quibble over but the flow of the story seems uneven to me. One interesting error that is repeated over and over is the description of the night encampment of the patrols as "leaguered" when I believe what he meant to say was laagered, an afrikaans word meaning to form a circular defensive camp.

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A drive in the desert

I liked the concept of using the protagonist's memoirs as the basis of the story.
Although the author makes you feel like you are on a LRDG patrol, the story was ho-hum. I never really had any empathy for the characters.
I found myself always flipping to the maps to find out where the patrol was at. A Map at the beginning of each chapter would be helpful.
Just an ok read.

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