Why Germans Were Terrified of British Soldiers — But Not Americans or Other Allied Troops

Erwin Rommel defeated the French in six weeks, drove the British out of Greece and Crete, and came within reach of the Suez Canal. But in the private papers he kept throughout the war, he wrote something his own superiors found deeply uncomfortable — that the British soldier was the most dangerous opponent he had ever faced. Not because of his weapons or his generals, but because in two years of fighting across the desert, Rommel had never once found a way to make him stop. From the massacre at Le Paradis in 1940 to the nine-day siege at Arnhem, from the wire at Tobruk to the forests of the Reichswald, this is the story of why German soldiers feared the British in a way they never feared the Americans, never feared the French, and never feared anyone else they faced in the entire war. Sources: Liddell Hart, Basil — The Other Side of the Hill (1948) Liddell Hart, Basil (ed.) — The Rommel Papers (1953) Beevor, Antony — D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (2009) Hastings, Max — Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1984) Frost, John — A Drop Too Many (1980) #BritishHistory #WW2 #BritishArmy #WorldWarII #SecondWorldWar