Advantage Quote by Erich von Manstein

“His order [Hitler's] to stand firm not only created clarity about what the army was doing but also had some effect in improving morale.…

— Richard J. Evans

“The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated ‘Ivan’, the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded or outnumbered…

— Antony Beevor

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in…

— Winston Churchill

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man…

— Friedrich Paulus

“In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians…

— Ken Follett

One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it…

— Kate Forsyth

I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too strong, too…

— Manfred Rommel

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

“As we have noted before, it may well be necessary to defeat the enemy army. It may even be necessary to defeat it to…

— J.C. Wylie