Kursk: The German ViewSteven H. Newton Hachette Books, 2002 - 485 páginas 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. 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. Yet, the German view of the battle has been largely ignored.After the war, U.S. Army Intelligence officers gathered German commanders' post-war reports of the battle. Due, in part, to poor translations done after the war, these important documents have been overlooked by World War II historians. Steven H. 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. As a result, a new and unprecedented picture of German strategy and operations is made available. 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. |
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jaly 1943 | 27 |
Corps Raas Special Employment | 61 |
Fourth Panzer Army | 71 |
Ninth Army and Second Panzer Army | 97 |
Ninth Army 5aly 1943 | 120 |
to Operation Citadel | 134 |
Second Panzer and Ninth Armies | 140 |
Luftflotte Four | 179 |
XX Corps 89 August 1943 | 251 |
XI Corps 26 August 1943 | 302 |
aly14 August 1943 | 304 |
PA R T 3 | 355 |
A Fatal Delay? | 371 |
Analysis and Critique | 381 |
Was Kursk a Decisive Battle? | 407 |
Notes | 439 |
Luftflotte Four 1uly 1943 | 195 |
Railroad Transportation | 201 |
PA R T 2 | 215 |
Bibliography | 457 |
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168th Infantry Division 3rd Panzer Division 6th Panzer 6th Panzer Division aircraft antitank guns Armeeabteilung Kempf armored Army Group Center Army Group South Army’s Assault Gun Battalion August batteries battle Belgorod breakthrough bridge bridgehead Brigade Busse Colonel combat strength commander committed concentrated Corps’s counterattack defensive Divi Division Lieutenant Division’s Donets enemy Engineer Battalion fantry Field Artillery Field Marshal fighting fire flak Flak Battalion flank forces Fourth Panzer Army German Glantz and House Grenadier Regiments Grossdeutschland Gruppe heavy Hitler Hoth Hoth’s III Panzer Corps July Kharkov kilometers losses Luftflotte Luftwaffe main effort Manstein Mechanized Corps Mortar Ninth Army offensive Operation Citadel Orel salient Panzer Regiment Panzergrenadier Panzergrenadier Regiment Panzerjaeger Battalion penetration positions Prokhorovka Psel Raus Red Army Reel reinforced reserves rifle divisions Russian tanks Second Panzer Army sector sion Sixth Army SS Panzer Corps staff strategic tactical troops units wing XI Corps XLVIII Panzer Corps