Operation Zitadelle 1943 Healy Mark
Operation Zitadelle 1943 Healy Mark A concise, accessible account of the greatest tank battle in historyIn July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern…
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Operation Zitadelle 1943 Healy Mark
A concise, accessible account of the greatest tank battle in historyIn July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. In reality, the German tanks came up against impenetrable Russian defenses: minefields, artillery and anti-tank emplacements, spread through lines 250km deep and manned by Russian troops whose actions often verged on the suicidal. It was an attempt to shorten the German lines by eliminating the Kursk salient - created after their defeat at Stalingrad - and was designed to result in the encirclement of the Red Army.
The greatest tank battle in history, Kursk assured the Nazis' defeat and was 'the swan song of the German tank arm'.Involving over 9,000 tanks, 5,000 aircraft, 35,000 guns and mortars, 2.7 million troops and 230,000 casualties, the Battle of Kursk was a conflict whose scale and barbarity