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DEMOLISHING THE MYTH
THE TANK BATTLE AT PROKHOROVKA, KURSK,
JULY 1943: AN OPERATIONAL NARRATIVE
Valeriy Zamulin
Translated and edited by Stuart Britton
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Published by Helion & Company 2011
Text © Valeriy Zamulin 2010. English edition translated and edited by Stuart Britton, ©
Helion & Company 2010. Maps © Barbara Taylor 2011. Photographs as individually
credited.
Originally published as
Prokhorovka – neizvestnoe srazhenie velilkoi voiny
(Moscow:
AST, Tranzitkniga, 2005). This English edition is based upon a revised and updated text
from the author and also includes specially-commissioned maps and additional
photographs and appendices.
ISBN 978 1 906033 89 7
eISBN 978 1 912174 36 2
Mobi ISBN 978 1 912174 36 2
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations Used in Tables
Publisher’s Note
Introduction
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The Situation in the Kursk Sector as of July 1943
Defensive Preparations of the Voronezh Front on the Southern Face of
the Kursk Salient
The 5th Guards Tank Army and its Commander, P. A. Rotmistrov
Fighting on Voronezh Front’s Sector 5–9 July 1943
The II SS Panzer Corps Reaches the Prokhorovka Axis
The Advance of the
Stavka’s
Reserves to Prokhorovka
Combat Operations on 10 and 11 July – The Beginning of the
Prokhorovka Engagement
Combat Actions on the Sector of 69th Army’s 35th Guards Rifle Corps,
9-11 July 1943
Preparations for Voronezh Front’s Counterstroke
Combat Operations on the Main Axis of Attack – The 5th Guards Tank
Army
Combat Operations in the Sector of the 5th Guards Army in the Bend of
the Psel River
Combat Operations of the 69th Army and Group Trufanov of the 5th
Guards Tank Army on 12 July 1943
The 12 July Counterattack and its Results on Supporting Directions
Preparations for Combat Operations on the Prokhorovka Axis from 13
July to 16 July 1943
15 Combat Operations in the Psel River Bend and Southwest of
Prokhorovka – 13 July
16 Combat Operations of the 69th Army in the Area of Rzhavets and
Shakhovo 13-16 July
17 The Withdrawal of the 69th Army’s 48th Rifle Corps from Threatened
Encirclement between the Lipovyi and Northern Donets Rivers, 15 July
1943
18 The Results of the Prokhorovka Engagement – Myths and Reality
Appendices
I Thoughts on the Nature and Proper Designation of the Combat at
Prokhorovka
II German Order of Battle in the Battle of Kursk, Belgorod-Oboian-Kursk
Axis, 1 July 1943
III Red Army Order of Battle in the Battle of Kursk, the Belgorod-Oboian-
Kursk Axis, 1 July 1943
Notes
Bibliography

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