 In another work on the North African campaign, the 1977 "The Life and Death of the Africa Korps", Lewin wrote that it was "necessary to assert that ... the purity of the desert purified the desert war", while Fraser focused on Rommel's battlefield performance and described him as a hero.Fraser's biography remains a work of high reputation, with Pier Paolo Battistelli praising it for the outstanding handling of the issue of Rommel's myth as well as his life and career in general.However, the work has been criticised by historian Mark Connelly as "encapsulat[ing] the post-1945 hagiographic approach".