The Battle of Kursk: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Tank Battle of World War II

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the battle by generals and soldiers on both sides*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“The Russians have learnt a lot since 1941. They are no longer peasants with simple minds. They have learnt the art of war from us.” – Wehrmacht Generaloberst Hermann “Papa” Hoth at Kursk (Healy, 1992, 90)“On the German side, the reserves which will become so desperately necessary as the war situation develops […] will be tied down and thrown away uselessly. I consider the operation that has been planned a particularly grave error, for which we shall suffer later.” – Colonel Reinhard Gehlen, Wehrmacht intelligence analyst, writing about Operation Citadel (Fowler, 2005, 66).The vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine provided the Eastern Front arena where the armies of Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin wrestled lethally for supremacy in 1943. Endless rolling plains