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 ...

In the summer of 1943, the Waffen SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler rebuilt in the villages around Kharkov, drilling for a single mission: smash the Kursk salient and force the war back in Germany’s favor ...

In the summer of 1943, the Soviet city of Kursk became the most important target in the war. The Germans were desperate to recapture it to stabilize their front, while the Russians went to ...