All of this is well documented and footnoted throughout the book.

They also tell something of the relatively unknown human costs to the Russian civilians relocated before the battle. They thoroughly explain the daunting logistical problems faced by both sides. Glantz and House consider every aspect of the battle without missing a detail. The book will be a heavy read for some but worth the effort. I recommend this book highly for the serious student of the Eastern Front. This book would draw heavily on Soviet records and offer an amazingly detailed telling of the battle. House co-authored what might be one of the definitive accounts of the Battle of Kursk. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union quite a few of the Russian records of the battle were not available to historians. One of the strange ironies was that even though it was a great victory for the Soviet Union most accounts of the battle came from the German side of the struggle. After Kursk the German military would never again take the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front.

When the battle finally ended the results for German strategy were distinctly catastrophic. In terms of numbers of men, tanks, aircraft and artillery it was unquestionably one of the largest battles in history. It has been considered as one of the decisive battles of the Second World War some consider it the real turning point of the war against Hitler. The Battle of Kursk in July 1943 was a struggle of almost mythological scale and violence.

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