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Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army

by Evgeni Bessonov

SBN: 1932033483

ISBN-13: 9781932033489

Pages: 254

Publisher: Casemate

Published: 2005

Language: English

Alibris ID: 15561104146

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The climax of Operation Citadel, the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 involved as many as 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting men. The largest tank battle of the Second World War, it had major consequences for Germany, being the last major offensive its forces launched in Russia. Hitler s hopes of victory on the Eastern Front were brought crashing down, and from that moment on the Axis armies faced retreat in the face of the onslaught from Stalin s Red Army. One of the men in the vanguard of that Soviet offensive was Evgeni Bessonov