Lost Victories

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Lost Victories is the English title of Erich von Manstein’s memoirs, in which the German field marshal recounts his military campaigns and strategic views during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
war memoir
associatedWith Wehrmacht memoir literature
myth of the clean Wehrmacht
author Erich von Manstein NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Germany
describes Battle of Stalingrad NERFINISHED
Crimean campaign NERFINISHED
Erich von Manstein’s military career
German military strategy in World War II
Manstein’s strategic views
Operation Barbarossa NERFINISHED
campaign in France in 1940
campaigns on the Eastern Front
documentedIn military history bibliographies
focusesOn German-Soviet war
operational-level warfare
genre autobiography
military memoir
hasPerspective German military perspective
hasReception controversial for apologetic tone
influential in postwar military studies
hasTheme command decisions
criticism of Hitler’s leadership
military strategy
missed strategic opportunities
operational art of war
influenced postwar perceptions of Wehrmacht leadership
language English
mainSubject Eastern Front of World War II NERFINISHED
German Army operations
World War II
narrativePerspective first-person
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Verlorene Siege NERFINISHED
portrays Erich von Manstein NERFINISHED
German High Command NERFINISHED
publicationPeriod post-World War II
setting European theaters of World War II NERFINISHED
subjectOf critiques of selective memory
historiographical debate
timePeriodCovered 1939–1945
Second World War NERFINISHED
title Lost Victories NERFINISHED
usedAsSourceBy military historians
writtenBy former German field marshal

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memoir "Verlorene Siege" hasEnglishTitle Lost Victories
subject surface form: Verlorene Siege
Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski notableWork Lost Victories
subject surface form: Erich von Manstein