In the aftermath of the Stalingrad disaster, the Red Army surged forward—threatening to collapse the entire southern front.
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Frozen Hell & Fierce Freedom: The 59,000-Man Breakout Hitler Ignored
In the frigid chaos of Ukraine, more than 59,000 German troops were surrounded in the Korsun‑Cherkassy Pocket. With Hitler ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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