Erich von Manstein was Germany’s greatest commander, and the Battle of Kharkov was his greatest victory. Why, then, did it matter so little? War, the poet Virgil once wrote, is a tale of “arms and the man.” The outcome of battle hinges on numbers, technology, training, and other impersonal factors, not to mention weather and …
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