In July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Citadel, sending elite Waffen-SS Panzer divisions into the largest tank battle the ...

The conflicts on the Eastern Front of World War II were bloody and brutal. By 1943, the German army had lost millions of soldiers in Russia and resorted to using aging conscripts from World War I and ...

On July 12, 1943, SS Lieutenant Rudolf von Ribbentrop drove his Panzer IV into the maelstrom of Prokhorovka—where over 1,200 tanks clashed in history’s fiercest armored battle. With Soviet T-34s ...

Students of military history know the battle of Kursk in 1943 as the largest-ever clash of armoured forces – a battle that would prove a vital turning point in the defeat of Nazi Germany. It was a ...

Its popular history was constructed from German and Soviet propaganda, and based on early accounts lacking vital information buried in Russian archives until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Key ...