After the heavy losses sustained by the opening of Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht reached a decisive turning point. They could wait and be pummeled by an imminent Soviet offensive or take the ...

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 ...

Before Kursk, there was Dubno. In June 1941, thousands of Soviet and German tanks clashed in a desperate melee across western Ukraine. This is the story of the Red Army's first, brutal lesson in ...