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Great Lives: Ray Mears on Rommel

Ray Mears on Rommel

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Ray Mears champions the life of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Survival expert Ray Mears chooses Hitler's favourite general, Erwin Rommel. With Matthew Parris. From 2014.

The life of Erwin Rommel, for a time Hitler's favourite general is nominated by Ray Mears. Matthew Parris hears why this German soldier was a "great life". They are also joined by Dr Niall Barr, Reader in Military History, Defence Studies Department at Kings College, London. 
 
 
Producer: Perminder Khatkar.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

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