A review by elliottzink
Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hilter's Most Brilliant General by Erich Manstein

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If Napoleon had Manstein as his publicist the French people would have never known that he had lost Waterloo which is not really a joke. Early reviews couldn’t praise it too highly, and it wound up earning the praise of influential strategists S.L.A. Marshall and B.H. Liddel Hart despite its obvious flaw: the Germans lost. It remained highly praised even after the truth became undeniable: Manstein was a war criminal. Even now it has preserved Manstein’s reputation as a strategist when he was a liar.
Hemingway might have called Mussolini the “Biggest Bluff in Europe” but if he’d have known about Manstein he might have reconsidered.