THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA: The Myth of Hitler's Greatest Armoured Defeat

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Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armee before Moscow in 1812; and Prokhorovka in July 1943 -- the most critical tank battle of the Second World War, which saw the annihilation of Hitler's elite Panzer force in the largest armoured clash in history and left Hitler with no alternative but to halt Germany's offensive against the Kursk salient.

The book seeks to expose myths about the battle and argues that German armoured losses were negligible and a fresh approach is required to understand Prokhorovka. The battle was indeed an important Soviet victory, but a very different one to that described above. Based on ground-breaking archival research and supported by hitherto unpublished images of the battlefield, the book presents a new analysis of this famous battle.