Zitadelle · the German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943 by Healy, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Contents Introduction Acknowledgements Chronology Maps Part One: Why Kursk?

1 The Führer and the Field Marshal 2 What is to be Done? 3 The Case for a Mobile Strategy – Manstein’s Backhand Option 4 The Führer’s Agenda 5 Enter Zeitzler 6 Operational Orders Numbers 5 and 6 7 The View from the Kremlin 8 The Role of Enigma and Lucy 9 The Decision and the Plan 10 The ‘Citadel’ 11 Air Power and the Role of the Partisans 12 ‘Know Thine Enemy’ 13 Delay After Delay … 14 … After Delay 15 The German Plan 16 The Role of the Luftwaffe

Part Two: The Armies

17 A ‘New’ Red Army 18 Soviet Industry and Lend-Lease 19 The Ostheer on the Eve of Zitadelle 20 The Waffen SS at Kursk

Part Three: Chariots of Fire – the Tanks at Kursk

21 A Neglected and Much Abused Instrument 22 December 1942 – The State of Panzer and AFV Production 23 ‘I Need You’ – the Return of Guderian 24 The ‘Wonder Weapons’ 25 The Workhorses 26 Armour and Firepower 27 Tank Design, Crew Proficiency and Training 28 Tactics, Terrain and Weather

Part Four: The Battle of Kursk: 4 July – 11 July 1943

Part Five: The battle for Prokhorovka 12–17 July: ‘Spectacle Without Profit’

Part Six: Conclusion

48 Costs and Consequences

Part Seven

Appendix 1 German Army Order of Battle Appendix 2 Soviet Army Order of Battle Appendix 3 German and Soviet Aircraft Appendix 4 German and Soviet Tank Types Appendix 5 Other Weaponry Bibliography

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