-----Happy 132nd Birthday Erich Von Manstein ...Field Marshal Von Manstein ,would write "Lost Victories"...A great piece of strategy ,if you get you hands on a copy...He was such a great leader, he was respected so great by the people he fought...They spoke on his behalf at his war trial... Eisenhower, Churchill,and the one he fought the most..Zhukov...Who learned all to well...Von Manstein was the master of mobile defense...Which NATO would help get him out of prison...To lead NATO'S defense against the Warsaw Pact...He was the only one...who basically told Hitler..F..off...I'm doing this my way...When he tried his Mobile Defense,Hitler didn't want to give ground...But Von Manstein needed to give ground to lure Zhukov into a trap,and smash his forces...He would continue to piss Hitler off...Leading to his dismissal from command in1944...Soon after,The Eastern Front fell apart for the German Army... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...