During the brutal armored fighting of the Kursk offensive in 1943, Kurt Knispel and his Tiger tank crew faced constant Soviet attacks across the Eastern Front. Moving from one threatened sector to ...

Launched in July 1944, Operation Goodwood was designed to break German defenses east of Caen using overwhelming armored force. Thousands of tanks and bombers were committed in what became the largest ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable. The Battle of ...