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The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare.
Kursk is a tactical wargame for two players (or two teams) that covers various aspects of the battle. Three scenarios are provided: Von Manstein's Plan (May 1943): A "what if" scenario based on the original plan of attack that should have happened two months earlier, before the Russians were dug in.
In The Guide to Simulations/Games for Education and Training, Martin Campion was impressed by this game, saying "Kursk shows clearly the hopelessness of the historic German offensive and the growing but still very imperfect Russian offensive power in 1943." [6] Looking back at the game ten years after its publication, Steve List thought that ...
Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle) was the German offensive operation in July 1943 against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient, proposed by Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein during the Second World War on the Eastern Front that initiated the Battle of Kursk.
Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored one of its most important victories over German ...
The battle was referred to as the Fourth Battle of Kharkov (German: Vierte Schlacht bei Charkow) by the Germans. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The operation began in the early hours of 3 August 1943, with the objective of following up the successful Soviet defensive effort in the Battle of Kursk .
Ukraine's Kursk invasion caught Russia by surprise and followed time-honored tactics. The question for Ukraine is whether Kursk will fare better than Germany's Battle of the Bulge.
The Voronezh–Kharkov strategic offensive operation was a successful strategic offensive operation of the Red Army's Voronezh, Bryansk and South-Western fronts, carried out from January 13 to March 3, 1943 with the aim of defeating the German Army Group B and liberating a large territory and the important industrial and administrative centers Voronezh, Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov.