His previous books include “Hitler’s Boy Soldiers” “German Army on the Eastern Front, the Advance” “German Army on the Eastern Front, the Retreat”, ”Nazi Concentration Commandants 1933 -1943”, “The Crushing of Army Group North” and the SS Waffen Division series, including “SS Leibstandarte Division and SS Totenkopf Division at War”. The leaf on the back cover talks about the author: Ian Baxter is an avid collector of WWII photographs. The leaf on the front cover has the history of the battle. The front and rear covers have a fold-over leaf that is 4” wide. The photo on the right shows a column of Pz.Kpfw. IV with 2 crewmen on top, being followed by 5 infantrymen. Below it is a picture on the left of a Pz.Kpfw. The largest photo at the top shows a Stug. The cover art has three black and white wartime photos on it. Stiff defensive action was now the stratagem placed upon the dwindling Panzerwaffe right to the gates of Berlin.Ĭasemate is a book distributor and publisher based in Pennsylvania. The reverberations caused by the defeat at Kursk were immense, and never again would the German war machine go on the offensive in the East.
For the first time in its short history, the blitzkrieg concept had failed. The result was two weeks of unceasing fighting as German units were slowly and systematically ground down in a series of brutal armored battles.ĭuring this ferocious fighting the Red Army savagely contested every foot of ground, finally ending German invincibility forever. Kursk quickly became a fierce contest of attrition, as Wehrmacht and elite Waffen-SS panzer divisions equipped with the powerful Tiger and Panther tanks, tried to hammer their way through the intricate lines of strong Soviet defensive positions. This offensive resulted in the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of WWII. In the summer of 1943, the German army launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off a large number of Soviet forces in the Kursk salient.
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