As the year 1943 progressed, a series of attacks centred around Stalingrad in southern Russia, resulted in some of the most ...

The Third Battle of Kharkov in early 1943 stands as one of WWII’s most stunning displays of German military strategy.

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 ...

1858 The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and the Republic of Lydenburg unite. 1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ...

Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea ...

No less a figure than Erich von Manstein, a top German commander, called it one of Hitler’s ‘most critical mistakes’. Defeat in the Battle of Britain Stretching throughout much of 1940, the Battle of ...

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 ...

Baron von Manstein brought Erich up as his own son—in the Junker tradition. When Erich emerged from the Kadetten-Schule and was commissioned lieutenant in the swanky, expensive Potsdam Guards ...

White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned ...

Their rough headboards stating "Sacrificed to the Fascist Barbarians" With some satisfaction I found myself one of the guards holding Field Marshal Erich von Manstein as he awaited War Crimes Trial.

So was Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who drew 18 years for the murder of Russian prisoners. It was unlikely that either would ever return to jail.

Erich von Manstein’s spectacular military accomplishments are certainly widely known, perhaps primarily as a result of his carefully crafted memoir, Lost Victories (which one historian has remarked ...