There Nikolai Vatutin’s army of half a million men had torn a 200-mile gap in the lines of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, and was now racing into the pages of history with furious momentum.

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 ...

The solution devised by German commanders, notably the legendary Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, was a mobile defense that would take advantage of German tactical and operational prowess ...