David Stirling of the desert group SAS which had caused us more damage than any other British unit of equal strength." - Meaning and context.">
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Ch XVIII : Back to Tunisia, p. 393.
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Thus the British lost the very able and adaptable commander David Stirling of the desert group SAS which had caused us more damage than any other British unit of equal strength.

— Erwin Rommel

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Thus the British lost the very able and adaptable commander David Stirling of the desert group SAS which had caused us more damage than any other British unit of equal strength." in the context of "Ch XVIII : Back to Tunisia, p. 393." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Erwin Rommel

About Erwin Rommel

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Field Marshal and commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps in World War II, widely referred to as The Desert Fox (Der Wüstenfuchs). Linked to a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was ordered to commit suicide with a cyanide pill, in return for assurances that his family would not be persecuted following his death.