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Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle     КНИГИ » ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ

Название: Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle
Автор: Nik Cornish
Издательство: Brown Bear Books Ltd
Серия: German War Machine
ISBN: 1781212678
Год: 2015
Страниц: 218
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, azw3, pdf (conv)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The greatest tank battle in history began during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to determine the course of the war on the Eastern Front. Kursk is a detailed account of this pivotal battle, when the Germans threw 900,000 men and 2500 tanks against 1,300,000 soldiers and 3000 tanks of the Red Army in a savage battle of attrition. Unlike many accounts of the war on the Eastern Front, Kursk draws upon both German and Russian archive material. With an authoritative text and detailed maps, this book is an enthralling account of one of the most decisive battles in history.

“We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come tumbling down.”
Hitler’s well-known comment, made on the eve of the invasion of the Soviet Union was, by the summer of 1943, sounding ominously hollow. When, in the early hours of 22 June 1941, Germany and her allies had unleashed Operation Barbarossa, the codename for the invasion of the Soviet Union, success looked like a foregone conclusion as the panzers tore across the vast, open steppes. By the end of November 1941 Leningrad and Sebastopol (base of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet) were under siege, the Ukraine and the Baltic States were occupied, and Moscow itself was in the frontline. In theory the vast bulk of the Soviet Union’s Army and Air Force had been destroyed, captured or so badly disrupted as to be of little or no fighting value. However, the theory was at odds with the facts of the situation. Germany’s lack of preparedness for a winter campaign and the Soviet Union’s seemingly limitless supplies of men and equipment were factors that had been overlooked in the euphoria of the rapid advances of the summer. The horrors of campaigning in the depths of a Russian winter with no anti-freeze, protective clothing or roads worthy of the name came home with a vengeance to the men of the Wehrmacht. As Colonel-General Heinz Guderian, the panzer genius, wrote to his wife “this is the revenge of reality.” With their men and machines a shadow of their former strength, the overstretched units of Army Group Centre faced the power of the Soviet counterattack, launched on 5 December 1941. During the winter of 1941 the temperature fell as low as minus 43 oC. Such was the force of the Soviet counterattack that Army Group Centre appeared to be on the verge of collapse, as position after position was overwhelmed by Red Army men used to the harsh conditions and equipped with machines and weapons designed for winter warfare.

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