Kursk: The Greatest Battle - Rilegato

Clark, Lloyd

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ISBN 10: 0755336380 ISBN 13: 9780755336388

Casa editrice: Headline Review, 2011

Riassunto

5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'. It was also one of the most bloody, characterised by hideous excess and outrageous atrocities. It was a monumental and decisive encounter of breathtaking intensity which became a turning point, not only on the Eastern Front, but in the Second World War as a whole. As Churchill noted, for Russia, 'Stalingrad was the end of the beginning, but the Battle of Kursk was the beginning of the end'. Using the very latest available archival material including the testimonies of veterans and providing strategic perspective alongside personal stories of front line fighting, Lloyd Clark has written a lucid, enthralling and heart-stopping account of this incredible battle.

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Descrizione del libro:

A monumental, enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two, by a highly regarded military expert.

L'autore:

Lloyd Clark is a senior academic in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Professorial Research Fellow in War Studies, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham. He is the author of several books, including Anzio: The Friction of War and Arnhem: The Greatest Airborne Battle in History, has contributed to numerous others and lectures on military history all over the world. He is a frequent guide to battlefields on four continents and often works on radio and television as both historical adviser and interviewee. He lives in rural Hertfordshire with his wife and three children.

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• Editore: Headline Review
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0755336380
• ISBN 13: 9780755336388
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 496