demolishing the myth the tank battle at prokhorovka pdf

It was translated into English by Stuart Britton. 'Demolishing the Myth' is a book that was first released in Russian and written by Valeriy Zamulin. Just because we now know that Dubno in 1941 saw the greatest amount of tanks in one battle, with approximately 5,000 Soviet and 1,000 German tanks, it does not mean that the battle of Prokhorovka was any less important or earth shattering in its consequences or the lives of its veterans. That is not to say that the fighting was not bitter and to the death, as was all the fighting in the Kursk salient. Only in some Soviet dreams was the ground littered with burned out panzers. Long known as the 'death ride' of the panzers, Prokhorovka was really much smaller in scale than was imagined.

The actual battle of Prokhorovka has been wrapped even tighter in an impenetrable fog than the rest of the Kursk battle. Unfortunately, due to Soviet propaganda and other untruths, it has been very hard for historians to peel back the layers and find the truth about Kursk. The tank battle at Prokhorovka has been stated many times to be the largest tank battle in history. Kursk is probably the second most written about battle following Waterloo.

Demolishing the myth the tank battle at prokhorovka pdf