The Warrior

S1, E3: Rommel describes the long trajectory, of an Icarus-like figure, glorying in the giddy heights of fame, only to plummet to his death conniving against Hitler, the man who promoted him so spectacularly to prominence. What determined the defeat of the Afrikakorps at El Alamein? Was it Rommel's own strategic error, his opponent Montgomery or the successful deciphering of the Enigma coding machine? Internationally acclaimed experts have evaluated thousands of unpublished papers from the Field Marshall's private estate, diaries kept by his comrades-in-arms and comprehensive wartime documentation, all delineating Rommel's image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.