Field marshal: the life and death of Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, a brilliant soldier; intelligent, brave, compassionate, egotistical, and arrogant. And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose success blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich.

Yet on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause.

In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand because he had dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth.