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The forgotten battle of the Kursk salient : 7th guards army's stand against army detachment Kempf
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- Creator
- Valeriy Zamulin ; translated & edited by Stuart Britton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Solihull, West Midlands : Helion & Company Limited., 2018
- Physical Details
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- 608 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, color maps, portraits ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1911512579, 9781913118204, 9781911512578, 1913118207
- OCLC
- on1041478483
- "Parts of this book have been published in Russian with the title Krax nastupleniia Generala Kempfa"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: 1."We didn't anticipate even a quarter of what the Russians had prepared here" -- 2.In the shadow of the main attack -- Army Detachment Kempf's role in Operation Citadel -- 3.5 July 1943 -- The beginning of the end of a tragicomedy -- 4.The 7th Guards Army's main defensive belt crumbles -- 5.Breith's III Panzer Corps reaches the line of the 69th Army, 7-8 July 1943 -- 6.The fall of the Belgorod bastion, 9-10 July 1943 -- 7."The beast is badly wounded, but still very dangerous." Breith's III Panzer Corps' dashing foray into the 69th Army's rear -- 8.The pinning counterattack: 7th Guards Army and the events of 12 July -- 9."The operation's failure turned into a tragedy"