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The battle of Kursk was the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front. The battle began well for the Germans, but the Russians delayed them long enough for reserves to come forward. Soon the defenders outnumbered the attackers, and Hitler called off the attack. The Russian victory at Kursk resulted from a massive rebuilding of the Red Army in 1943, which included new unit organizations and weapons designed to counter the German Tiger and Panther tanks. The German defeat signalled the transfer of the initiative to the Russians and demonstrated to the Western Allies that the Soviet Union could defeat the Germans without a second front. Based on recently declassified Russian information and an analysis of captured German records, this book gives a detailed description of both the German and Soviet forces involved and evaluates the quality of the units on both sides.
- Sales Rank: #3332170 in eBooks
- Published on: 1997-08-26
- Released on: 1997-08-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
WALTER S. DUNN, JR. had a 40-year career directing museums, including the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society and the Iowa Science Center. His books include The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945 (1995), Hitler's Nemesis: The Red Army (1994), and Second Front Now, 1943 (1981).
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
A great work of history
By Tom Munro
This is an interesting and challenging work. Rather than write a conventional military history of the cut and thrust of battle the author tries to analyse the forces prior to the battle and to calculate the realistic position. Previous historys have not done this. The reason for that was that previous historys depended on German sources for a narrative of the battle. The Germans at the time of the battle had little idea of the strength of the Soviet forces or the fact that even if this battle had succeeded there were five armies ready to plug the gap. Dunn points out that Soviet histories of the battle have been based on these same German accounts. They have only differed in who they have made the hero's and villians.
Through examining the strength of both armies, Dunn clearly shows that the German army was doomed from the start. His work goes through Soviet and German sources to work out actual casualty rates for each part of the battle. He finds that several of the accounts are wrong. The Soviets for example did not fight heroic last-ditch battles losing vast numbers of men. They in fact defended the Kursk position in an elastic way not losing many men at all. Further Dunn examines the German tank losses and finds that most accounts until now have wildly overestimated the German losses.
Some of the Amazon Com reviewers have been disappointed with this book. The reason for that is that the book is not what they expected. The reality is that the work is fascinating in its detail and is a fine example of a "method of history" which aims at understanding the truth of an event rather than looking at the legends.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Absorbing Study Of The Fateful Battles At Kursk!
By Barron Laycock
The German conduct of Operation Barbarossa against the Russians along the Eastern front was an incredibly massive and at first very successful campaign which slowly but fatefully turned against the Wehrmacht due both to an underestimation of the strength and resiliency of the Russians on the one hand, and the Germans' over-confidence and arrogance on the other. Indeed, nowhere was their conduct more self-defeating or more disastrous than at Kursk, in one of the most fateful conflicts in the war. In this book, author Walter S. Dunn concentrates tellingly on relating the stunning particulars of the epic exchanges at Kursk that, when the smoke and dust finally cleared, fatefully altered the entire balance of World War Two, not only for the so-called Eastern front of the war, but for the entire Allied war effort in Europe. One might argue that in this regard, if Stalingrad was that point in the conflict at which the fortunes of the Wehrmacht were first so fatefully reversed, then Kursk was the point of no return, where the specter of unavoidable eventual defeat and the horrific destruction of the Nazi Wehrmacht was all that lay ahead.
The Battle of Kursk was one of the most pivotal and epochal struggles in the Allied war against the Germans, and comprised one of the largest tank engagements in military history. Through its devastating destruction in terms of the number of functional and operating armored vehicles left for the Wehrmacht to continue their prosecution of the war, it was the turning point in the war, the catastrophic defeat the Nazis could no longer afford to absorb. In this regard, considerable controversy has revolved around the extent to which Hitler himself was to blame for the terrible defeats at Kursk, given his fabled micromanagement of the Eastern campaign in general and the battle at Kursk in particular. The author engages such arguments both quite directly and forcefully, and readers will appreciate the intellect, accuracy, and details contained in his overview of the events at Kursk, as well as their import for subsequent events along the Eastern front.
Too many Americans familiar only with the Cold War aspects of Russian history tend to be ignorant of the critical contribution the Soviets made in winning a war so essential to the survival of democracy. It is an uneasy truth that without the Russian contribution in battling up to 200 divisions of German Wehrmacht troops for over four years, our entry onto the continent in France would not have been possible in 1944. Indeed, risking such a large sea borne assault would have been problematic against a force of the numbers of troops who would have been available had they not been otherwise preoccupied and engaged in an epic effort attempting to stem the terrible onslaught they were receiving at the hands of a resurgent Soviet Army. This isn't to claim the Russians could (or would) have won the war themselves, although there are serious and scholarly arguments forwarding such propositions. Rather, it is to contend that the Russian front became the real-life tar baby requiring so much German energy and resources that the Nazis were unable to adequately defend against the Allied invasion in Normandy in June 1944.
Many historians now contend that the Russians single-handedly repeatedly smashed (and cumulatively diminished) the vast and critically important war-fighting capabilities the Wehrmacht continued to thrust against them, and that in doing so they changed the course of the war both along the Eastern front and for the war against the Allies in general. The evidence of just how formidable, ferocious, and inexhaustible opponents they had become in the two short years since the inauguration of Operation Barbarossa is detailed and documented herein, showing how a series of hasty, chaotic, and disastrous German attacks at Kursk led into the largest armored confrontation in the war and precipitated the devolution of the once proud Wehrmacht into a fragmented, fractious, and mortally wounded fighting force soon compelled to retreat, foot by foot all the way back to Berlin, losing millions of soldiers along the way. This is an authoritative, carefully documented, and absolutely entertaining account of one of the most important battles of WWII, and I highly recommend it. Enjoy.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A good institutional history of the battle of Kursk.
By A Customer
Mr. Dunn wrote a good institutional history of the battle of Kursk. Having read his previous work, I was not disappointed. However, the use of maps would have made the book more readable. Unlike one of the previous reviewers, the organization of the book made sense to me because I had seen that organization in other military works and had no difficulty working with it. If a reader desires a more "human" angle to this great clash, there are better works around but if you want as accurate a reading of what units did what and where, this work meets the need. A parting note on the English translation of the SS division names - what is the big deal - I know who they are.
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