The Loser

S1, E2: Investigation into the Desert Fox's reputation as a strategist, asking whether he began making serious tactical errors as British reinforcements in Egypt threatened his country's military supremacy. Internationally acclaimed experts have evaluated thousands of unpublished papers from the Field Marshall's private estate, diaries kept by his comrades-in-arms and comprehensive wartime documentation, all delineating Rommel's image anew. Rommel also features a wealth of rarely seen film footage in colour and black and white, from World War I to his funeral in October 1944. This stunning series does not yet again sing the praises of an epic desert warrior. It is a precise psychograph of a man mutating in the clutches of evil.