The Life and Death of the Afrika Corps

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By Ronald Lewin

Quadrangle, 1977, 197 pp

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Military history at its analytical best, incorporating new information from electronic (code) intelligence. Lewin, previously a biographer of Rommel, attributes Afrika Korps success to four factors: leadership, technological superiority, standardization, and organizational improvisation. The work is flawed only by its relative neglect of the air battle.

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