Field Marshal Manstein executed one of the most brilliant counteroffensives of WWII. Luring Soviet troops into overextension, he struck with devastating precision. This battle at Kharkov became a ...

With the Third Battle of Kharkov back in German hands, Field Marshal Manstein delivered one final, stunning blow to the Red Army, managing to buy precious time for a crumbling Eastern Front that was ...

With the Soviet forces surging deep into Ukraine following Stalingrad, the German Eastern Front seemed doomed to headlong retreat, but Field Marshal Manstein turned disaster into a deadly trap. This ...

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 ...

After Operation Uranus sealed the German 6th Army inside Stalingrad, Hitler refused to let it break out and pinned everything ...

“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 ...