Skip to main content

Operation Citadel - Kursk and Orel, the Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

By: Presidio Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Military History Books (Presidio Press)

Last Stocked on 6/30/2021

Product Info

Title
Operation Citadel - Kursk and Orel, the Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
1987
Pages
288
Dimensions
7.5x11x1"
NKG Part #
2147890702
Type
Hardcover

Description

"The victory of Kursk must be a signal to the world." Hitler staked everything on the success of his Operation Citadel. With its failure, the Wehrmacht once and for all lost the strategic initiative that had already been reduced at Stalingrad.

The battle of Kursk and Orel has come down in military history as the world's greatest tank battle. The losses sustained by the German Panzer troops and by the Luftwaffe cost Germany the operational significance of both. Their defeat introduced the last phase of the war which ended finally with the Red Army marching into Berlin and Soviet Russia gaining stature as a world power.