The Germans re-organised and launched a counteroffensive under the command of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein. In early 1943, the Soviets looked to capitalise on their morale-boosting win at Stalingrad and began an offensive against the Germans in the south, retaking territory including the city of Kursk. However, the mechanised Battle of Kursk witnessed the world’s largest armoured confrontation, as two sides equipped with a combined 8,000 tanks squared off. When it came to bloodshed, nothing on the Eastern Front could quite top the meat grinder that was Stalingrad, a bloody urban conflict that caused 2 million casualties and included the total annihilation of the German 6th Army. Many of which occurred on the Eastern Front, as Hitler’s Wehrmacht clashed with Stalin’s Red Army during Operation Barbarossa. The translated staff reports are supplemented by Newton's commentary and original research, which challenges a number of widely accepted ideas about this pivotal battle.WWII, the greatest conflict in human history, had more than its fair share of significant battles. As a result, a new and unprecedented picture of German strategy and operations is made available. Newton has collected, translated, and edited these accounts, including reports made by the Chiefs of Staff of Army Group South and the Fourth Panzer Army, and by the Army Group Center Operations Officer. Due, in part, to poor translations done after the war, these important documents have been overlooked by World War II historians. After the war, US Army Intelligence officers gathered German commanders' post-war reports of the battle. Yet, the German view of the battle has been largely ignored. Students of military history have long recognized the importance of Kursk, also known as "Operation Citadel, " and there have been several serious studies of the battle. The battle of Kursk, fought in the summer of 1943, involved six thousand German and Soviet armored vehicles, making it the biggest tank battle of all time and possibly the largest battle of any kind. Publisher's summaryįirsthand accounts of the German commanders who planned and executed the largest tank battle in history. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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