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On Jan. 4, 1944, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein flew from the Eastern Front to see Adolf Hitler, determined to change the Führer's mind. Manstein had tried before—he had pushed hard for a radical ...

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 ...

Major Gen (Retd) Jim Molan is author of Running the War in Iraq. Over the Christmas break I read the recently published \'Manstein: Hitler\'s Greatest General\' by the erudite Major General R.A.M.S. \ ...