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Hitler’s Greatest General – Mungo Melvin. An Excerpt from Manstein. Hitler’s Greatest General. The destroyed harbour at Sevastopol’s Southern Bay, following the Axis capture of the city on 1 July , after a prolonged day siege and heavy artillery and air attacks. After four weeks of hard pounding, the guns fell silent on 1 July over the once mighty citadel and naval base of bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. While he never captured the popular imagination of such figures as the Desert Fox, Schneller Heinz, Monty, or Ike, Erich von Manstein was perhaps the most gifted General in the entire war. Literate and aristocratic, he was an operational and tactical genius who always planned ten steps ahead/5. Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest General, by Maj. Gen. Mungo Melvin, is a long-overdue analysis of this German field marshal who served such a bad cause so well. Few authors are as qualified to write this book as General Melvin, one of the foremost thinkers in the British bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.

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Manstein became one of the rising stars in the quietly expanding Reichswehr between the wars, and was swept up into the general euphoria of Hitler's rise to power, though he did reveal contradictory positions by composing a letter in protesting the ban on the employment of Jewish officers. A member of Hitler's General Staff during the years of –38, when Germany undertook breathtaking modernization and plans to build a "storm artillery," Manstein was posted to command in Silesia. Hitler’s Greatest General – Mungo Melvin. An Excerpt from Manstein. Hitler’s Greatest General. The destroyed harbour at Sevastopol’s Southern Bay, following the Axis capture of the city on 1 July , after a prolonged day siege and heavy artillery and air attacks. After four weeks of hard pounding, the guns fell silent on 1 July over the once mighty citadel and naval base of Sevastopol. The immediate advantage that Hitlers Greatest General enjoys compared to Lost Victories is that Melvin is not Manstein. Melvin uses operational logs, diaries of Manstein’s personal staff and interviews to compliment and challenge the version of events Manstein portrays in Lost Victories.