But it is the author’s exploration of the human dimension of armored combat that truly distinguishes this book. He offers expert perspective on strategy and tactics at the highest levels, from the halls of power in Moscow and Berlin to the battlefield command posts on both sides. In Armor and Blood, Showalter re-creates every aspect of this dramatic struggle. The result was a furious death grapple between two of history’s most formidable fighting forces-a battle that might possibly have been the greatest of all time. On both sides, the generals and the dictators they served were in agreement on where, why, and how to fight.
The adversaries were at the peak of their respective powers. More than three million men and eight thousand tanks met in the heart of the Soviet Union, some four hundred miles south of Moscow, in an encounter that both sides knew would reshape the war. In the aftermath of the Red Army’s brutal repulse of the Germans at Stalingrad, the stakes could not have been higher. This battle was the critical turning point on World War II’s Eastern Front. Drawing on the masses of new information made available by the opening of the Russian military archives, Dennis Showalter at last corrects that error. While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians. One of America’s most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greatest tank battle of World War II-an epic clash of machines and men that matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the awesome might of the Nazi Wehrmacht. About Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk
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