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 ...

The conflicts on the Eastern Front of World War II were bloody and brutal. By 1943, the German army had lost millions of soldiers in Russia and resorted to using aging conscripts from World War I and ...

Students of military history know the battle of Kursk in 1943 as the largest-ever clash of armoured forces – a battle that would prove a vital turning point in the defeat of Nazi Germany. It was a ...

A year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a lavish gala concert to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, which saw the Soviet army drive out Nazi Germany's forces, hailing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Putin and his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Photo: Getty Images The Vladimir Putin administration has spent nearly three ...

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." --Ecclesiastes Kursk has seen this sort of thing ...

In July 1943, Germany launched Operation Citadel with elite Panzer and Waffen SS units in an attempt to smash the Soviet ...