Zitadelle:
The SS-Panzer-Korps on the attack July 1943
Seventy
years after the battle of Kursk, which was probably the greatest tank
battle of the Second World War and perhaps of all military history, comes
this new publication. Characterized by hundreds of period photos, allowing
the reader to relive those tragic and terrible events. The photos of men,
weapons, and vehicles taken on the battlefield before, during, and after
the engagements during the rare moments of rest are a true testament to
military history. An exceptional photographic documentation, which will
be useful to historians, military history students and modeling enthusiasts.
Some photos are already known, but we have made every effort to include
wherever possible new material as well, previously unpublished, coming
from the principal public and private archives, to try to offer our readers
a new editorial product. The course of operations was analyzed mainly
from the point of view of the Das Reich division, taking the information
directly from German war diaries and from Otto Weidinger's previous historical
researches on the same division. In the text, however, there is no lack
of references to other formations of the SS-Panzer-Korps, whose units
always acted in collaboration during the course of the offensive.
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