Rundstedt

By September, von Rundstedt had taken Kyiv, and by October, Kharkiv too had fallen to the Nazi advance.

It still was a grinding battle of huge cost in which von Rundstedt’s next moves yet were to shape up.

Considered too luxurious for the ranks, it held only officers - including Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who was in charge of the German army in Normandy during the Allied D-Day landings.

The army commander, Von Rundstedt, called for more of the same, an armoured infantry thrust that would obliterate the British and be an emphatic victory.

He saw action in many places, including the Battle of the Bulge, which he always insisted be referred to it by its proper name, "The Von Rundstedt Offensive".