Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukraine's military has chosen a defensive strategy that echoes the German approach from WWII. Lacking enough troops to defend its ...

On February 19, 1943, the Eastern Front was on the brink of collapse. In the Wolf's Lair at Zaporozhye, Hitler remained obstinate. His "no retreat" policy was absolute. Field Marshal Erich von ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the catastrophe at Stalingrad, Soviet armies surged deep into Ukraine, convinced the German front was collapsing for good. But Field Marshal Erich von Manstein had other plans. Instead of a ...

Ukraine's military has chosen a defensive strategy that echoes the German approach from WWII. Lacking enough troops to defend its huge territory, Nazi Germany opted for a mobile defense. Even an ...