Rommel vs. Kesselring: How Should Germany Defend Italy?

McManus and Hymel dig into the German strategic debate after Salerno — Rommel's preference for a northern defence line versus Kesselring's aggressive forward defence in the mountainous south. The episode gets into why the Italian campaign became such a grinding attritional slog and whether the German approach was actually more coherent than the Allied one. McManus is one of the best working historians on the US Army in WWII, and the hour-long format gives this room to breathe.