"Patton: The Man Behind the Legend" by Martin Blumenson and "The Rommel Papers" by Erwin Rommel

Updated at 9:20 pm: Both of these books have been sold.

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Two classics of World War II, exquisitely produced, with bound in leather with gold and gold gilt edges.

The books:

• "Patton: The Man Behind The Legend 1885 - 1945" by Martin Blumenson — Published by Easton Press. Collectors Edition, bound in genuine leather. Hardcover, 320 pages. Like new condition; appears to have never been read.
  
  About the book:
  
  

  This biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson explores the life of this American hero, a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself.

  Illustrated with 64 photographs, many from the Patton family archives, Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945 is a dramatic and memorable portrait of a complex American hero, a man called "the greatest combat general of modern times."

• "The Rommel Papers" by Erwin Rommel — Published by Easton Press. Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. 545 pages. Like new condition; appears to have never been read.
  
  About the book:
  
  

  An essential collection of the wartime writings and diary of World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, edited with commentary by one of the great military theorists of our time

  When Erwin Rommel died-by forced suicide at Hitler's command, he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career and the exact details of his masterly campaigns. It was his custom to dictate each evening a running narrative of the day's events and, after each battle, to summarize its course and the lessons to be learned from it.

  He wrote, almost daily, intimate and outspoken letters to his wife in which his private feelings and-after-the-tide-had-turned forebodings found expression. To this is added by Rommel's son, Manfred, the story of the field marshall's last weeks and the final day when he was given the choice of an honorable suicide or an ignominious trial for treason. An engrossing human document and a rare look at the mind of the "Desert Fox," The Rommel Papers throws an interesting light on the Axis alliance and on the inner workings of Hitler's high command.

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