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The Battle of Kursk

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University Press of Kansas, 1999 - History - 472 pages
Shrouded in obscurity and speculation for more than half a century, the Battle of Kursk finally gets its due in this dramatic retelling of the confrontation that marked the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front and brought Hitler's blitzkrieg to a halt. Glantz is founder and former director of the US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office.

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User Review  - Grant - Goodreads

Glantz proves himself (again and still) the master of operational history of the Great Patriotic War (aka the Eastern Front of World War II). Not just an outstanding battle history, but a careful ... Read full review

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User Review  - John Bianchi - Goodreads

The definitive work on the pivotal battle of the eastern front in WWII, Glantz and House use Soviet records made available for the first time in the west. The result is a microscopically detail ... Read full review

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Munich 3 May 1943
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The German Army in the East 19411943
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Stalin Zhukov and Soviet Military Strategy
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Glantz is founder and former director of the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office and editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.

Jonathan M. House is William A. Stofft Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Leavenworth, Kansas. He is author of "Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century" and "Military Intelligence, 1870-1991" and coauthor, with David M. Glantz, of several studies of the Soviet-German conflict during World War II.

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