A monumental enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two by a highly regarded military expert 5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German & Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history & epitomised total war. It was also one of the most bloody characterised by hideous excess & outrageous atrocities. The battle concluded with Germany having incurred nearly three million dead & the Soviet Union a staggering ten million. It was a monumental & decisive encounter of breathtaking intensity which became a turning point not only on the Eastern Front but in the Second World War as a whole. Using the very latest available archival material including the testimonies of veterans & providing strategic perspective alongside personal stories of front line fighting Lloyd Clark has written a lucid enthralling & heart-stopping account of this incredible battle.