Following the catastrophic loss at Stalingrad, the German Eastern Front was on the brink of total collapse, facing a ...

The Wehrmacht's Master Strategist, The Man Who Planned Hitler's Greatest Victory... and Was Fired For It His Allied ...

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 the summer of 1943, Manstein proposed two bold alternatives on the Eastern Front: a swift pre-emptive strike immediately after the spring thaw, and a defensive trap designed to lure Soviet armies ...

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 ...

On Jan. 4, 1944, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein flew from the Eastern Front to see Adolf Hitler, determined to change the Führer's mind. Manstein had tried before—he had pushed hard for a radical ...

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 ...

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 ...