In 1943, after the crushing defeat at Stalingrad, the German army was on the retreat. But at Kharkov, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein defied orders and turned the tide. By luring Soviet forces into a ...
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From triumph to trap: Manstein turns Soviet success into disaster
As Soviet tank corps raced toward Hitler’s headquarters, overextended supply lines and exhausted crews left them vulnerable.
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 ...
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The last armored gamble to save Stalingrad
In November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, encircling the German 6th Army at Stalingrad and sealing its fate.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lacking enough troops to defend its huge territory, Nazi Germany opted for a mobile defense. Even an full-scale active defense has limitations and won't help Ukraine seize back its land. In 1943, as ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Nikolai Vatutin’s salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the ...
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