Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943Bloomsbury Academic, 1997 M08 26 - 200 páginas The battle of Kursk was the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front. The battle began well for the Germans, but the Russians delayed them long enough for reserves to come forward. Soon the defenders outnumbered the attackers, and Hitler called off the attack. The Russian victory at Kursk resulted from a massive rebuilding of the Red Army in 1943, which included new unit organizations and weapons designed to counter the German Tiger and Panther tanks. The German defeat signalled the transfer of the initiative to the Russians and demonstrated to the Western Allies that the Soviet Union could defeat the Germans without a second front. Based on recently declassified Russian information and an analysis of captured German records, this book gives a detailed description of both the German and Soviet forces involved and evaluates the quality of the units on both sides. |
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The Strategic Position April 1943 | 1 |
Rebuilding the Red Army | 19 |
The Germans Rebuild | 37 |
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13th Army 1st Tank Army 2nd Army 2nd SS Panzer 3rd Panzer Corps 3rd Panzer Division 40th Army 48th Panzer Corps 4th Panzer Army 5th Guards Tank 6th Guards Army 7th Panzer Division 9th Army Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Division advance antitank guns armored Army Detachment Kempf Battle of Kursk Belgorod Central Front counterattacks Death Head Division east flank February Front reserve German Army German divisions German tanks Gross Deutschland Guards Rifle Division Guards Tank Army Guards Tank Corps Ibid July 12 Klink Koltunov Manstein March Mechanized Corps Mehner morning of July Moscow moved Oboyan Oboyan road offensive Panzer Grenadier Division Prokorovka Psel River Red Army Reich Division reinforced replacements Russians second defense line Soviet Army Soviet Rifle Division SS Panzer Corps Stadler Stalingrad Stavka Reserve supporting units tank battalions Tank Brigade Tank Destroyer Brigade tank destroyer regiments tank regiments Tigers troops Voronezh Front