To win Hitler needs to take Moscow, he forfeits this opportunity in late summer 1941, the probability of success is on a downward slope after that.
Actually I do not consider the declaration of war on the USA decisive, although US entry of course was. However there are other ways this could have come about
Originally Posted by Grimm Reaper
Question: I recall an Alt-Hist which I never bothered to read, in which Hitler visits Manstein's headquarters shortly after 'Manstein's backhand blow' in which he used an astonishingly small force to restore the front after the surrender of Stalingrad. Hitler spews his usual venom, Manstein blows Hitler away, and sounder leadership seizes power in the Reich.
Manstein, Manstein, Manstein.
One of only two Wehrmacht Field Marshalls to write memoirs, and his are the only set ever published. Since when they have been read and re-read and re-hashed by every historian for whom actual research was too much effort.
Can we please have some WWII ATL's which do not feature Manstein or Speer?