KURSK 1943 CLASSIC BATTLES Author:MARK HEALY Kursk was the greatest battle of WWII and the decisive last major German offensive in the east. After Kursk, the initiative lay wholly with the USSR, beginnibng a series of Soviet offensives that would end in the ruins of Berlin. Mark Healy describes the strategic build-up to the battle before presenting a detailed account of the German armore... more »d thrusts into the immensely deep Soviet defenses. The massive preparations had turned the area into a gigantic killing-ground.« less