 1953 saw the publication of Rommel's writings of the war period as "The Rommel Papers", edited by the British journalist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart, the former Wehrmacht officer Fritz Bayerlein, who served on Rommel's staff in North Africa, and Rommel's widow and son.The volume contained an introduction and commentary by Liddell Hart.The historian Mark Connelly argues that "The Rommel Papers" was one of the two foundational works that lead to a "Rommel renaissance" and "Anglophone rehabilitation", the other being Young's biography.