In the aftermath of Germany’s catastrophic defeat at Stalingrad, the Soviet Red Army surged westward with unstoppable momentum, threatening to collapse the entire German front in Eastern Europe.

Benoît Lemay, trans. from the French by Pierce Heyward, Casemate (casematepublishing. com), $32.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-935149-26-2 Lemay, well regarded in France as a military historian, offers a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

After the catastrophic defeat at Stalingrad in early 1943, Soviet armies surged westward and threatened to collapse the ...

In 1943, after the crushing defeat at Stalingrad, the German army was on the retreat. But at Kharkov, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein defied orders and turned the tide. By luring Soviet forces into a ...

In the months after the disaster at Stalingrad, Soviet armies surged westward across Ukraine expecting the German front to collapse completely. Instead, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein launched a ...