Published 2013-10-01
“…In the article the author analyses how the largest battle of the Great Patriotic War and the second World War, the Battle of Kursk, is shown in the west historiography: the intentions of the opposite sides, the degree of preparation to the coming battle, the correlation between number of people and military machines, the realization of decreed tasks, the peculiarities of strategy and moving fighting forces for the battle, the mistakes of
German side which were the result of defeat. There are some arguments that the foundation for the forming ideas of western historians about the events on the Soviet
German front in summer 1943 is in the workings of captured
German generals and officers which were prepared by the task of military – historical service of US
army. …”
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