The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army s Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July - August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War s most critical events. While the Germans defeats at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler could not win the war in the East, the outcome of Kursk demonstrated beyond a doubt that he would lose it. This study was compiled by the Red Army General Staff s military-historical directorate, which was charged with collecting and analyzing the war s experience, and issued as an internal document in 1946-47. The study languished for...

Prelude to Berlin offers a panoramic view of the Soviet strategic offensives north of the Carpathians in the winter of 1945.