Robert M. Citino, professor of history, has written his ninth book, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 (University of Kansas Press), about the German army's campaigns near the end of World War II.

Citino is considered one of the foremost experts on German military history and has been featured on the History Channel and in other publications. In this book, he describes how the Germans' major campaigns put them on the defensive against the Allies and were just as much the fault of the officer corps as they were of Adolf Hitler. The book follows Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, which was published in 2007.