Before the Battle of Kursk began, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein favored a different strategy from Adolf Hitler’s planned ...

After the disaster at Stalingrad, the Red Army surged deep into Ukraine believing Germany was finished. But while Hitler ...

In “Is There a Manstein in Kyiv?” (Letters, Sept. 22), John Arquilla describes German Gen. Erich von Manstein’s strategy after Stalingrad: first cede a little ground, then strike the attackers with ...

In 1943, as the tide of war turned against the Third Reich, the German high command opted for a desperate strategy on the Eastern Front. Outnumbered and outgunned by the Red Army, the Germans pinned ...