The tigers are burning"The story of the Battle of Kursk - the greatest single land-and-air combat engagement in military history"--Dust jacket. |
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User Review - Whiskey3pa - LibraryThingVery good account of Kursk. Written well on the strategic level with good choices of areas to scope in on. Has stood the test of time well. Read full review
Contents
The Plan behind Operation Citadel | 3 |
The Miracle Marshal | 9 |
The Fatal Flaw in the Tiger Tanks | 17 |
Copyright | |
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advance Air Force aircraft ammunition antitank armored forces Army Group South assault attack barrage Battle of Kursk battlefield Belgorod blow bombers Bryansk central front combat crews defense zone enemy explosive Ferdinands field fighting fire firepower flank fought Fourth Panzer Army front lines German army German forces German lines German tanks German troops Gross Deutschland ground Guderian heavy tank high command Hitler Hoth infantry Kharkov Kursk salient losses Luftwaffe machine guns Manstein mass massive Mellinthin miles military Moscow move Nazi night numbers Oboyan offensive Operation Citadel Orel pakfronts Panther Panzer Corps panzer divisions panzerkeil partisans planes plans Ponyri positions powerful Red Army Rokossovsky Rotmistrov Russian army Russian artillery Russian defense Russian forces Russian front Russian lines Russian soldier Russian tanks sapper sector self-propelled guns shells Shershavin sian Soviet Stalin Stavka strength strike supplies targets Tiger tanks tion turret units Vatutin Voronezh front weapons wedge Wehrmacht XLVIII Panzer Zhukov
Bibliographic information
| Title | The tigers are burning |
| Author | Martin Caidin |
| Publisher | Hawthorn Books, 1974 |
| Length | 243 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / World War II Kursk, Battle of, Russia, 1943 |
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