The Battle of Kursk, the climax of Operation Citadel, involved up to 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting ...

Armor and Blood recounts the details of history's greatest armored battle and a turning point of World War II, bringing it into sharp focus and out of the mists of propaganda and myth. For the ...

We tend to think of the Battle of Kursk in July 1943 as the largest tank battle in history, and indeed it was. But it was much more than that, as Dennis Showalter shows in "Armor and Blood," his ...

Kursk was bloody: the German offensive alone cost 54,000 Germans and 178,000 Soviet casualties — yet there were no major encirclements or surrenders. Kursk was a battle of attrition rather than ...

The statistics relating to the Battle of Kursk—the great showdown between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in July 1943—still have the power to astonish, even 70 years later. Almost 3 million ...

Key Point: The hype about The Battle of Kursk is off the charts. The title of Martin Caidin’s 1974 history of the Battle of Kursk is still evocative, with its imagery of Nazi Germany’s vaunted ...

Distinguished American military historian Dennis Showalter makes a resounding case for the Battle of Kursk in his recent book, “Armor and Blood,” and in doing so, he bursts some of the myths ...

Kursk's battle also saw the debut of the Panther tank, which was also known as the Panzer V. This was created as an affordable yet formidable foe to rival the Soviet T-34.

The Battle of Kursk began July 5, 1943 and lasted more than a month. The German surprise assault and subsequent Soviet counterattack involved some 6,000 tanks and 2 million troops.

In my Jan. 20 Letter to the Editor comparing a battle during Desert Storm with the battle of Kursk in World War II, I stated that only one U.S. armored division was involved in the former because ...