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"Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses - including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties - within the first ten days of fighting. Going well beyond all previous accounts, David Glantz and Jonathan House now offer the definitive work on arguably the greatest battle of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.Tags
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This is the classic deep operational analysis of the battle that permanently put the Germans back on their heels on the Eastern Front for the rest of World War II. Of particular importance is Glantz's revisionist point that, for all the Cold War excuses from German historians, there was nothing to suggest that the Germans would not tear another deep hole in Soviet defenses the way they did in 1941 and 1942; making the Soviet achievement even more impressive,
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David M. Glantz is founder and former director of the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office.
Jonathan M. House is the William A. Stofft Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His previous books include Combined Arms Warfare in the 20th Century; A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962; and, with David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.
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- The Battle of Kursk
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- USSR; Kursk, USSR
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); World War II, Eastern Front (1941-06-22 | 1945-05-05); Battle of Kursk (1943-07-12 | 1943-08-23)
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