The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russi
Guderian being transported to the Eastern Front, 1943
A Raupenschlepper Ost, designed in response to the poor roads of Russia, moves materiel up shortly before the Kursk offensive.
Zhukov with Ivan Konev, commander of the Steppe Front, during the Battle of Kursk
Soviet sappers of the Central Front cutting barbed wire, June 1943
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its Axis allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Rus
Battle of Kursk
…the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare. It ranks only behind the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier as the most often-cited turning point in the European theatre of the war. It was one of the costliest battles of the Second World…
Расчет советской 76,2 мм пушки ЗиС 3 ведет огонь в Сталинграде. Ноябрь 1942 г
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R90142, Russland, Kesselschlacht Stalingrad
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 E0406 0022 001, Russland, Kesselschlacht Stalingrad