Driving back the Soviet Voronezh Front's desperate defense, under command of Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin and future Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev, the fight culminated in the famous tank battle at Prokhorovka. On 5 July 1943, three German panzer corps, under command of German General Erich von Manstein, tore into the Soviet fortified defenses south of Kursk. The Battle of Kursk was the largest armor battle in history. The book includes: 29 fold-out maps, 94 maps in the text, 41 charts, graphs and diagrams, 166 tables, 194 statistical sheets covering each engagement, 100 separate sidebars of discussion, 66 German and Soviet commander biographies, and four photo sections with 289 photos drawn from both German and Soviet sources. Premium white paper, deluxe, heavy cloth boards, deluxe sewn binding, top grade linen paper, top grade photo paper for maps and photos, heavy glossy dust jacket. Offers a detailed description, quantitative analysis, and personal description of the battle as well as accounts from over 100 German and Russian participants.Īpproximately six-inches thick and weighing in at 11.5 pounds. Covers the entire range of fighting: strategic decisions, operational art, tactics, and personal stories. Draws upon both the German and Russian archival records, as opposed to the sometimes distorted narratives and legends that have grown up over the battle, and compares and contrasts those records with the stories and interviews collected from veterans. The research began in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union had fallen, when The Dupuy Institute was able to gain access to the Russian military archives. It began as part of a US Army-funded research project and then became an extended book project. This major work represents 20 years of research and is akin to those magnificent US Army Green books.
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