A professional German journalist, war correspondent in the active army from 1941 to 1945, Lutz Koch, back in 1949, made one of the very first attempts to understand what was happening to the world and Germany at the turn of the 30s and 40s. The Desert Fox is not just another best-selling book about World War II. This work belongs to a rare genre of journalistic prose in modern times: every word is filled with the deepest meaning; each chapter has its own tonality - from confidential-narrative to requiem-philosophical, from grotesque-sarcastic to heroic-pathetic, its own minted rhythm and characteristic timbre and represents a complete artistic whole. This work is a good gift for professional historians and those who care about the past, present and future of world civilization.