# Quote — Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel

> The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein.

- Author: [Steven Pressfield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield.md)
- Book: [Killing Rommel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel.md)
- Page: 177
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Pressfield#Killing_Rommel_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/the-mammoth-we-attacked

## More from this book

> One act I will never stand for is leaving our fellows behind. Bugger military protocol, or lofty notions of honour. I can't live with running out on a pal, and I won't let any of you do it either.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/one-act-i-will.md)

> You English are loath to embrace the virtues of the warrior. Such an act embarrasses you. You prefer to see yourselves as civilians summoned reluctantly to arms, as-what is the word?-'amatuers.' But you are warriors, you English. You are, Chapman. Trust me, who has faced you in the field.

p. 237 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/you-english-are.md)

> I could be counted upon to perform the mission they had assigned me, or, if that was unworkable, to improvise and turn my men's exertions upon a secondary undertaking as good as or better than the first.

p. 175 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/i-could-be-counted.md)