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 demanded an immediate attack to retake Kharkov, Field Marshal Erich von ...

As Germany prepared for its decisive offensive in 1943, one of its most respected commanders warned against the path being chosen. Erich von Manstein advocated different approaches that emphasized ...

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

After Stalingrad, Soviet forces pushed deep into Ukraine believing Germany’s collapse had already begun. But behind the ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the crushing defeat at Stalingrad, the Soviet Army pushed west believing Germany was finished. But Field Marshal Erich von Manstein launched a perfectly timed counteroffensive that exploited ...

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 ...

In “Is There a Manstein in Kyiv?” (Letters, Sept. 22), John Arquilla describes German Gen. Erich von Manstein’s strategy after Stalingrad: first cede a little ground, then strike the attackers with ...

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 ...

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