Before the Battle of Kursk began, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein favored a different strategy from Adolf Hitler’s planned direct offensive against Soviet defenses. As Germany prepared for one of the ...

Der Name Erich von Manstein steht für militärisches Können – aber auch für die Verstrickung in die Verbrechen des NS-Regimes. Die Bundeswehr musste entscheiden, wie sie mit diesem Erbe umgeht. Dieses ...

In his analysis of the Ukraine war, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. refers to the brilliant German general from World War II, Erich von Manstein, and muses whether there might be “a Manstein in the Russian ...

“The ablest of all German generals,” British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. “Our finest operational brain,” said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein ...