Sous les Ordres de Rommel Des déserts de l'Afrique du Nord aux plages de Normand

by Hans Höller

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**PLEASE READ** I WILL PROVIDE A SHIPPING QUOTE IF YOU PURCHASE MULTIPLE ITEMS. PLEASE AWAIT MY COMBINED SHIPPING INVOICE FOR MULTIPLE ORDERS. IF YOU ONLY BUY ONE ITEM YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND PAY. REMEMBER - IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL TO BUY MULTIPLE PURCHASES AND GET EVERYTHING SENT TOGETHER -------------------------------------------------- Sous les Ordres de Rommel: Des déserts de l'Afrique du Nord aux plages de Normandie - Hans Höller, Markus Reisner et Andreas Hartinger - Editions Heimdal Superb book as usual from Heimdal! In this extraordinary autobiography by Hans Höller, an Austrian born in 1921 near Wiener Neustadt, readers are plunged into an epic journey through the torments of the Second World War. At the age of 20, Höller served as a simple Schütze of the Afrika-Korps in Egypt at the Col d'Halfaya (described by the British soldiers as the "Pass of Hell Fire") and then in Tobruk, Libya. He was promoted to Lieutenant a year later and in the autumn of 1942 he was sent as head of section to Tunisia, and participated in one of the last battles of German troops on the African continent, with the Panzer Division. As a young officer, Höller was ordered to lead an infantry attack, during which he was seriously wounded in a terrifying body-to-body fight against British soldiers. Once healed, he was sent to France for the reconstruction of the famous 21. Panzerdivision, within the Pz-Gren.-Rgt. 192. Commanding a section of Panzerjäger in Normandy, Höller was ordered to take the fam

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