On both sides, the generals and the dictators they served were in agreement on where, why, and how to fight. The adversaries were at the peak of their respective powers. More than three million men and eight thousand tanks met in the heart of the Soviet Union, some four hundred miles south of Moscow, in an encounter that both sides knew would reshape the war. In the aftermath of the Red Army’s brutal repulse of the Germans at Stalingrad, the stakes could not have been higher. This battle was the critical turning point on World War II’s Eastern Front. ![]() Drawing on the masses of new information made available by the opening of the Russian military archives, Dennis Showalter at last corrects that error. While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians. One of America’s most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greatest tank battle of World War II-an epic clash of machines and men that matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the awesome might of the Nazi Wehrmacht.
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