After Operation Uranus sealed the German 6th Army inside Stalingrad, Hitler refused to let it break out and pinned everything on a relief attack from outside. The task fell to Erich von Manstein, who ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukraine's military has chosen a defensive strategy that echoes the German approach from WWII. Lacking enough troops to defend its ...
On February 19, 1943, the Eastern Front was on the brink of collapse. In the Wolf's Lair at Zaporozhye, Hitler remained obstinate. His "no retreat" policy was absolute. Field Marshal Erich von ...
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 ...
Forget Rommel: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, largely unknown to Americans because he served mainly on the Eastern Front, was the exemplar of Germany%E2%80%99s ...
White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned into ...
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 ...
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 ...
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. Pp. ix, 647. Illus., maps, appends., notes, biblio., index. $37.50. ISBN: 0312563124 Erich von Manstein’s spectacular military ...
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