In early 1943, Germany’s defeat at Stalingrad left the Eastern Front in chaos. Soviet forces surged forward, threatening to unravel the entire German line. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was given ...

After the catastrophe at Stalingrad, Soviet armies surged deep into Ukraine, convinced the German front was collapsing for good. But Field Marshal Erich von Manstein had other plans. Instead of a ...

Following the catastrophic loss at Stalingrad, the German Eastern Front was on the brink of total collapse, facing a relentless and overwhelming Soviet advance. Yet, one commander—Field Marshal Erich ...

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 Italians,” says Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in his memoirs of Stalingrad, simply “disappeared from the battlefield.” In the most decisive battle of World War II, the Russians, breaking ...

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 ...