In the aftermath of the Stalingrad disaster, the Red Army surged forward—threatening to collapse the entire southern front.
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 the wake of Stalingrad’s collapse, Germany’s Eastern Front was unraveling. But one commander—Erich von Manstein—refused to surrender to chaos. This episode follows his rise from the ruins, battling ...
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 World War II, General Eisenhower and Britain’s Field Marshal Montgomery did not see eye to eye on all things military, but they agreed that the best of the German generals they faced was Field ...
It was an uneasy New Year for Adolf Hitler. Something was rotten in the German Army. The Führer had just relieved Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from his command (TIME, Dec. 29) and was now, in ...