MANSTEIN: Hitler's Greatest General - Tapa blanda

"Mr. Melvin's biography is meticulously researched, and his treatment of Manstein's military prowess is thorough." --The Wall Street Journal

"A searing portraint of soldierly prowess in a disastrous cause, Melvin's comprehensive, judicious account will become the standard biography of Manstein in English." --Publishers Weekly

"A comprehensive, vivid portrait . . . Major General Mungo Melvin has admirably captured the long elusive Erich von Manstein in a book of particular relevance to today's readers." --Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn

"Superb . . . Mungo Melvin writes with penetrating analysis and fine prose about the greatest strategic brain of any side in the struggle." --Andrew Roberts, author of Masters and Commanders

"This crisp, compelling book, the first full-scale biography of Manstein in English . . . grapples with the Manstein myth and gets the measure of the man." --Daily Express (UK)

"Melvin is well attuned to the moral compromise of the Wehrmacht's senior officers and his biography is markedly nuanced." --The Times (UK)

"A long-overdue analysis of this German Field Marshal . . . Few authors are as qualified to write this book as General Melvin, one of the foremost thinkers in the British Army. . . . [A] compelling yet unflinching portrait of one of the military geniuses of the twentieth century." --Military History Quarterly

"More than a biography of a great commander; this is a penetrating account of a general's conflict with his political leader and the moral dilemmas involved." --Soldier magazine