Prokhorovka. Unknown battle of the Great Patriotic War. Grulin V.

For almost half a century, Prokhorovka remained one of the main myths of the Great Patriotic War - Soviet propaganda cultivated the legend of the "greatest tank battle", in which the Red Army won an unconditional victory over the Wehrmacht. Reality turned out to be much more bitter than the ceremonial "General Pravda".

The author of this book, the leading domestic researcher of the Battle of Kursk, candidate of historical sciences V.N. Zamulin was the first to be based not on ideological myths, but on the archival documents of the opposing parties, he spoke about the Prokhorov battle of without resolving and embellishment that on July 12, 1943, on the south facet of the Kursk arc, it was not “the largest in history of the counter -counterclaim Tank battle ”, as Soviet historians and its participants claimed in their works, and the suicidal frontal attack on the enemy’s prepared defense, about the poor organization of the counterattack of the 5th Guards Combined Arms and 5th Guards Tank Armies and the huge losses incurred by their troops, about that about that about that , what is the price paid for the triumph of the Soviet troops on the Kursk arc.