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ISBN: 9781523383115
*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 – ideal “tank country” – vast forests, sprawling cities, and enormous tracts of agricultural land formed the environment over which millions of men and thousands of the era's most formidable military vehicles fought for their respective overlords and ideologies.
The winner could expect to reap very high stakes indeed. If Hitler's Wehrmacht smashed the Red Army, he could no longer hope for a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for peace on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Army triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed “Nemets” invaders from Russian soil – and perhaps carve out a Soviet empire in Central Europe.
*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 – ideal “tank country” – vast forests, sprawling cities, and enormous tracts of agricultural land formed the environment over which millions of men and thousands of the era's most formidable military vehicles fought for their respective overlords and ideologies.
The winner could expect to reap very high stakes indeed. If Hitler's Wehrmacht smashed the Red Army, he could no longer hope for a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for peace on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Army triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed “Nemets” invaders from Russian soil – and perhaps carve out a Soviet empire in Central Europe.
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