Before the Battle of Kursk began, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein favored a different strategy from Adolf Hitler’s planned ...

After the disaster at Stalingrad, the Red Army surged deep into Ukraine believing Germany was finished. But while Hitler ...

In his analysis of the Ukraine war, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. refers to the brilliant German general from World War II, Erich von Manstein, and muses whether there might be “a Manstein in the Russian ...

1. Von Manstein is widely acknowledged as the Third Reich's most brilliant field commander. As a junior staff general he was the genius behind the blitzkrieg breakthrough in the Ardennes at the start ...

“The ablest of all German generals,” British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. “Our finest operational brain,” said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein ...

Benoît Lemay, trans. from the French by Pierce Heyward, Casemate (casematepublishing. com), $32.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-935149-26-2 Lemay, well regarded in France as a military historian, offers a ...

To the German burgher, this was the blackest New Year since Versailles. No oratory, no promise of retribution could conceal the vast and calamitous defeat in the East. To the German soldier, this was ...

Key Point: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was possibly the greatest strategist and field commander in the German Wehrmacht. In January 1943, the once-invincible German Wehrmacht was reeling, being ...

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