Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest General: Mungo Melvin ERICH von Manstein is less famous to us than Rommel because no British troops ever faced an army under his command but his German contemporaries and ...

"The fences, they'll have to go," said the general to his men, remembering the harrowing events of the 1927 picnic. Till now his men looked at him quizzically thinking "But the fences are a permanent ...

Discover how Manstein used his Elite Panzer divisions (including the veteran SS Corps) to lure the over-extended Red Army into a deadly trap. The resulting campaign shattered five Soviet armies and ...

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 ...