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Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943 Paperback – Illustrated, 27 July 2010

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This title is a paperback edition of hardback. Few battles attract such interest as does the Battle of Kursk. Operation Zitadelle - the code name given by Hitler to the Wehrmacht's last offensive on the Eastern Front in July 1943 - has acquired an almost mythic status as one of the greatest clashes of armour in the history of warfare. For so long depicted as the battle which saw 'the swan song of the German tank arm' due to the huge tank losses experienced by the Germans in the face of massive Soviet defences, the emergence of new information has shown the reality to have been anything but. Indeed, total German 'write-offs' during the offensive were surprisingly low, with those of the Red Army being very high. And yet, for all the resources devoted to this operation by the Germans, Zitadelle was an abysmal failure. The Germans were not outfought by the Red Army at Kursk, yet they lost. In "Zitadelle", Mark Healy shows how the Germans were out-witted by commanders of outstanding quality who were able to deploy the Soviet Union's superiority in manpower and armour effectively and in such a way as to negate the continuing battlefield proficiency of the German Army - and especially of their tank arm - the Wehrmacht's best sword in its war on the Eastern front. "Zitadelle", although focusing essentially on the German operation, will nonetheless demonstrate how the Red Army had emerged by the summer of 1943 as a 'new' force, and one very different from that ravaged by the Wehrmacht in the terrible summer of two years before. It was enough for one of the senior German commanders at Kursk to say of the performance of the Red Army after Zitadelle had failed, that 'it is no longer an army of peasants. They have learnt the art of war from us'. Within two years of this last, supreme effort by the Germans to stabilise the eastern front before the onset of Allied landings in Europe, Germany was a defeated and the Red Army had propelled Soviet power to the heart of Europe. Mark Healy is the author of several military history titles on the Second World War and on ancient military history, including "Panzerwaffe: The Campaigns in the West 1940", "Midway 1942", "Cannae 216BC", and "The Warriors of the Old Testament". He was responsible for the best-selling video series for Chronos films released in the 1990s on German armour called 'Die Deutschen Panzer' and the follow-up series on the Luftwaffe and the U-Boat arm. He is a keen military modeller. Mark has other titles in preparation for Spellmount.

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27 July 2010
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17.2 x 2.39 x 24.79 cm
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0752457160
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Mark Healy is the author of several military history titles on the Second World War and on ancient military history, including Panzerwaffe: The Campaigns in the West 1940, Midway 1942, Cannae 216BC, and The Warriors of the Old Testament. He was responsible for the best-selling video series for Chronos films released in the 1990s on German armour called 'Die Deutschen Panzer' and the follow-up series on the Luftwaffe and the U-Boat arm. He is a keen military modeller. Mark has other titles in preparation for Spellmount.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The History Press; Illustrated edition (27 July 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0752457160
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0752457161
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.2 x 2.39 x 24.79 cm

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Best Kursk book for now

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 February 2020

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It is very unusual for a history of a battle/campaign to have to be rewritten but that in essence is what has happened with that of Kursk in the last 20 years and we havent reached the limits of this yet. In the future the death ride of russian tanks into the antitank ditch at Prokhorovka (if the russians ever admit the facts ) will balance out the huge ineffectiveness of the 2 panther battalions (think our Dieppe debacle tripled or
quadrupled ) which the germans have never really admitted the scale of. And for all the talk about tanks and afvs this book is really good at showing that the germans had almost no chance from the beginning, and that their real problem by 1943 was lack of infantry, and that they had already lost the intelligence war. It is bad enough that Hitler refused to believe the intelligence reports of Fremde Heer Ost but when those reports were maybe 50% down on the actual russian strengths disaster was not going to be far away. That the germans stripped the rest of the huge front line to bare bones to mass nearly 50% of their strength at Kursk was just making the upcoming counteroffensives easier for the russians. That the germans didnt lose as many tanks as the russians claimed in their histories is true, but that they had suffered enough damage as to have limited mobility or be awaiting repair in large numbers at rear front workshops just meant that their capture was delayed a few weeks until the front line contracted.

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Sussman

A notable work on the Kursk battle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2013

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This is a very notable work; the author goes into great detail and research to give the reader the most up to date information that has been gleaned from previously unavailable sources. As other reviewers have commented many assertions made in the past about how matters transpired, at Kursk, have now been debunked. This book discusses the historical development of arms that was used in the battle, by both sides. The groundwork for the Soviet in-depth defence treatment of the battle front is looked at in detail, as well as the detailed preparations made by the German high command to try and finally break the Soviet forces. You will see that the Germans used more personnel and materials than were previously amassed, for this battle by them, than on the whole of the Eastern front since their invasion on 22 June 1941.

The book is laced with good pictorials, diagrams and maps. My only very minor critique is the font size used in the book was too small, and I needed to use glasses for the first time, which is probably, just me. Any serious reader interested in Kursk should read this weighty book.

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Aleks "Eastern Front Enthusiast"

Very good work, though perhaps not great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2012

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In the first part of the book, the author provides a thorough investigation into both why Zitadelle took place and why it was much delayed. The explanation is very detailed and appears highly plausible.
The second and the third part provide an account of the opposing forces and the weapons available to them. Likewise, these are very informative and go a long way to helping one make their own inferences as to the plausible explanations for the actual combat performance of the forces engaged in the battle. So far, the work is definitely at the five-star level.
Part four has a detailed enough narrative of the battle from 4-11 July. However, I would have preferred a few more maps outlining front situation for each of the consecutive days. After all, if an entire chapter is dedicated to a particular day, it would make sense to have a map focussing on that day too. Also, some of the villages mentioned when describing the course of the combat operations do not appear on the maps that are provided in the book. A small but for some perhaps an important point is that constantly flipping back to the maps at the beginning of the book results in a lot of wear and tear of the paperback. By the time I was reading the chapters about 12-17 July, the maps had already been detached from the rest of the book. The lack of maps makes parts three and four a four-star work in my view.
Part five discusses the events on 12-17 July. Whilst 12-13 is covered well in my view, the ensuing period of 14-17 is not. In particular, the narrative does not explain in sufficient detail as to why the objective of German operations, as defined during the Rastenburg meeting, could not be achieved. This stands in contrast with the way the prior events are discussed in the book. Insufficient provision of maps applies to this part too. Therefore, this part is only two-star, according to my impressions.
Overall, I would say that the work is a four-star one and I would recommend it.

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Stretford End Groundside

Sets the benchmark

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2013

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A very readable, and well researched yet refreshing book. I can't recommend Zitadelle too highly.
Mark Healy has raised the benchmark here, making reference to sources left untapped by others.
If you have any interest in the Ostheer, read it. Best military book I've read in the past year.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2018

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Looks like an amazing read this book, with a lot of tactical maps and photos. I was recommended it and I recommend it to you.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2018

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THIS BOOK WAS VERY INTERESTING AND PACKED WITH FACTS NOT MYTHS. GREAT READ

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2011

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A very interesting and fact filled book. A little slow to start, but once you 'get into it' it is definitely worth it. I just wish the text font was a little BIGGER! Peter M

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2013

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Detailed information on individual battle formations of both sides, especially on the Russian Order of battle which was a bit contraventional before

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