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 ...

After the crushing defeat at Stalingrad, the Soviet Army pushed west believing Germany was finished. But Field Marshal Erich ...

The recapture of Kharkov in March 1943 marked Germany's last great operational victory on the Eastern Front. Field Marshal ...

In early 1944, Soviet forces trapped tens of thousands of German troops in the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket in Ukraine as Hitler ...

After the disaster at Stalingrad, Soviet forces surged westward expecting the German front to collapse completely. Instead, ...

Just weeks after the disaster at Stalingrad, Soviet commanders believed German forces were on the verge of collapse. Instead, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein launched a brilliant counteroffensive ...

As Germany prepared for its decisive offensive in 1943, one of its most respected commanders warned against the path being ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...