The Forgotten Battle Of The Kursk Salient

Army detachment Kempf's Auxiliary Offensive.

By Valeriy Zamulin & Stuart Britton (translator).

Using the Russian Ministry of Defence's archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II S Panzer Corps' offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka. He lays out the German and Soviet defences and then goes through a meticulous examination of the course of the fighting, as III Panzer Corps suffered initial setbacks in its attempt to link up with the right flank if II SS Panzer Corps (then extemporised on the battlefield to get the offensive going and to complete the link up), which the Soviet side fought valiantly to prevent this (according to the plan of the Voronezh Front Commander-in-Chief, N.F Vatutin).