The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive July-August 1943

The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter— Offensive, July—August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events. While the Germans defeat s at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler could not win the war in the East, the outcome of Kursk demonstrated beyond a doubt that he would lose it. This study was compiled by the Red Army General Staff’s military—historical directorate, which was charged with collecting and anal...