Killing Rommel

Killing Rommel is a 2008 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield set in North Africa during World War II.

The novel begins with the narrator recounting the story of a man named Chapman, who had been schooling in England when the war broke out.

However, the leadership of Erwin Rommel is the main driving force of German success and so long as he is around, the allies cannot expect to make much headway.

The group experiences many trials as it travels through hundreds of miles of barren desert, dealing with sickness, fatigue, dehydration, overheating trucks, Axis patrols, and more perils.

The novel also depicts the 'Warrior Code' that has been a major theme of most of his works and is explicitly outlined in his book The Warrior Ethos.