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The Battle of Kursk: Hitler's Last Great Offensive in the East

The Battle of Kursk: Hitler's Last Great Offensive in the East

Whitaker, Jack

Paperback

Series: Forgotten Battles

German HistoryRussian HistoryWorld War II

ISBN13: 9798193824442
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Battle of Kursk: Hitler's Last Great Offensive in the East, Jack Whitaker tells the gripping story of the vast summer campaign that marked Germany's final attempt to regain the initiative against the Soviet Union. In July 1943, across the fields surrounding the Kursk salient, German forces launched Operation Citadel, committing powerful armored formations against a Soviet defense built in extraordinary depth. Tigers, Panthers, T-34s, artillery, aircraft, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were drawn into a struggle that culminated in the legendary fighting around Prokhorovka.

Drawing on military reports, operational records, eyewitness accounts, and the evolving archival record, Whitaker reconstructs the planning, technology, and human experience behind one of the greatest clashes of the Second World War. From Hitler's repeated delays and the immense Soviet defensive preparations to the fighting at Ponyri and Prokhorovka and the counteroffensives that followed, he reveals a campaign decided as much by intelligence, logistics, industry, and endurance as by tanks on the battlefield.

More than a story of armored warfare, this book shows why Kursk became a defining moment on the Eastern Front. Germany's offensive failed to achieve the breakthrough Hitler sought, while the Red Army emerged ready to carry the war westward. The Wehrmacht would continue to fight with formidable skill, but never again would it launch a strategic offensive of comparable scale in the East.

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