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Panzers of Prokhorovka, The - The Myth of Hitler's Greatest Armoured Defeat

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Type: Softcover

Product Line: General Military - World War II

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Product Info

Title
Panzers of Prokhorovka, The - The Myth of Hitler's Greatest Armoured Defeat
Publisher
Category
Author
Ben Wheatley
Publish Year
2024
Pages
320
Dimensions
6x9.25x1"
NKG Part #
2148212993
Type
Softcover

Description

A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history.

Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka, where the Soviet annihilation of Hitler's elite SS Panzer force on 12 July 1943 in the largest armoured clash in history has traditionally been described as a key turning point in the war.

The Panzers of Prokhorovka challenges this narrative. The battle was indeed an important Soviet victory, but a very different one to that described above. Based on ground-breaking archival research and supported by previously unpublished images of the battlefield, Ben Wheatley argues that German armoured losses were in fact negligible and a fresh approach is required to understand Prokhorovka. This book tackles the many myths that have built up over the years, and presents a new analysis of this famous engagement.