The classified Kursk battle. The 4th edition, corrected and supplemented. Grulin V.N.

Like many other events of the Great Patriotic War, the battles on the Kursk arc were actually classified by the Soviet side for decades. For half a century, access to the documents of troops participating in this turning point had only a limited circle of military specialists. Only recently these funds were finally open. Valery Zamulin was one of the first to begin their analysis and systematization. The declassified documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the trophy department of the US National Archive allow the author to describe in detail the culmination of the Battle of Kursk - heavy battles in the Oboyansk direction and the famous counterattack of the Voronezh Front under Prokhorovka on July 12, 1943, restoring the course of the events literally by hours and minutes, analyzing it, analyzing The actions of the parties and the main reasons for success and failures. Fierce tank battles on the southern facial of a fiery arc appear before the reader in a new light - as their direct participants in the events saw: soldiers, officers...