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Прохоровка - неизвестное сражение великой войны

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  • "Tank battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943, an operational narrative"

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  • "A groundbreaking book when first published in Russia in 2005, now Valeriy Zamulin's study of the crucible of combat during the titanic clash at Kursk--the fighting at Prokhorovka--is available in English in a revised and expanded format containing much unique new material, including additional information, images and new maps. A former staff member of the Prokhorovka Battlefield State Museum, Zamulin has dedicated years of his life to the study of the battle of Kursk, and especially the fighting on its southern flank involving the famous attack of the II SS Panzer Corps into the teeth of deeply-echeloned Red Army defenses. A product of five years of intense research into the once-secret Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Zamulin lays out in enormous detail the plans and tactics of both sides, culminating in the famous and controversial clash at Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943."
  • "First published in Russian (2005), Valeriy Zamulin's study of combat during titanic clash at Kursk, the fighting at Prokhorovka, is available in English. A former staff member of Prokhorovka Battlefield State Museum, Zamulin has dedicated years to study the battle of Kursk, especially the fighting on its southern flank involving famous attack of the II SS Panzer Corps into deeply-echeloned Red Army defenses. After five years of intense research into once-secret Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Zamulin lays out in enormous detail plans and tactics of both sides, culminating in famous controversial clash at Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943. Zamulin weaves reminiscences of Red Army and Wehrmacht soldiers and officers into narrative of the fighting, using in part files belonging to Prokhorovka Battlefield State Museum. Zamulin has the advantage of living in Prokhorovka, so he has walked the battlefield and has an intimate knowledge of the terrain. Examining the battle from primarily the Soviet side, Zamulin reveals real costs and real achievements of the Red Army at Kursk, and especially Prokhorovka. He examines mistaken deployments and faulty decisions that hampered Voronezh Front's efforts to contain Fourth Panzer Army's assault, and valiant, self-sacrificial fighting of Red Army's soldiers and junior officers as they sought to slow German advance, and then crush the II SS Panzer Corps with a heavy counterattack at Prokhorovka on 12 July. Combat on this day receives particular scrutiny, as Zamulin works to clarify the relative size of contending forces, area of this battle, and costs suffered by both sides. The costs to General P. A. Rotmistrov's 5th Guards Tank Army and General A. S. Zhadov's 5th Guards Army as they slammed into 1st SS Panzergrenadier Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf and a portion of 2nd SS Panzegrenadier Division Das Reich were devastating, and Zamulin examines the counteroffensive to see why this was so. Zamulin does not exclude the oft-overlooked efforts of Army Group Kempf's III Panzer Corps on the right-wing of the Fourth Panzer Army, as it sought to keep pace with the II SS Panzer Corps advance, and then breach the line of Northern Donets River to link up with its left-hand neighbor in region of Prokhorovka. Zamulin describes how Soviet High Command and the Voronezh Front had to quickly cobble together a defense of this line with already battered units, but needed to reinforce it with fresh formations at expense of the counter stroke at Prokhorovka. Illustrated with photographs (including a color section showing present-day views of the battlefield), specially-commissioned color maps and supplemented with extensive tables of data, Zamulin's book is an outstanding contribution to growing literature on the battle of Kursk--Publisher's description."

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  • "Прохоровка - неизвестное сражение великой войны"
  • "Прохоровка--неизвестное сражение великой войны"
  • "Prokhorovka--neizvestnoe srazhenie velikoĭ voĭny"
  • "Prohorovka - neizvestnoe sraženie velikoj vojny"
  • "Demolishing the myth : the tank battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943 : an operational narrative"