Présentation de l'éditeur
If ever a figure from German military history earned his place among the notables, that man would be the heroic soldier and brilliant strategist, Baron Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein. In Conrad Kenneth Crease's meticulously laid out biography, The Desert Baron: Friedrich: A Warrior for All Seasons, the essence of the mank known as a WWI Rommel comes alive. Whether Crease is describing the battles for Gaza and Romani on the bliinding sands of the Sinai or the rugged terrain conquered by the Desert Baron, the story is as gripping as it is courageous. Add to this the soldier's participation in the escape of the German ships Goeben and Breslau, his work to save the Armenians from Turkish genocide, his heroic machinations that saved the young Republic of Georgia from conquest by his former allies - the Turks, and his new enemy - the Bolsheviks, the role he played in suppressing Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, and the reason for the author's commitment to telling this story is apparent. Related to this great soldier, Crease breathes life into
each conflict, pulling the reader into his narration and making all of us willing observers to more than a quarter century of history that changed the world forever.
each conflict, pulling the reader into his narration and making all of us willing observers to more than a quarter century of history that changed the world forever.
