Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History

Simon? Could you pretty please show a couple of maps with a few arrows and (front) lines on them to give even some kind of idea what is going on, without having to open google earth and guestimate? The archive footage was great and all, but I feel it's more valuable to understand who-is-going-where than to know what the individual types of tanks looked like... I think this goes for all of these mighty battles. Unless some specific technology is the decisive force multiplier, then focusing graphic aids on the tactical movement of each party is probably going to give a better general understanding.

0:40 - Chapter 1 - The fuhrer's hesitation
5:25 - Chapter 2 - Imminent attack
8:35 - Chapter 3 - Clash of titans
11:50 - Chapter 4 - Battle of prokhorovka
15:05 - Chapter 5 - Shifting tides

Excellent as always, Simon and team 👍👍 storytelling on point as always, but may I request more maps/diagrams from the editor? Big thanks for your all work on Warographics🏆

When Model, Guderian, and Manstein are all skeptical, that probably a good indication that it’s a really bad idea

Dearest Simon,

If I have to keep commenting in every one of these until you make it please do the battle from August 8th, 1915 for Osowiec Fort. It has all the makings of a great story and even has a great eye catching title as it is colloquially known as the Attack of The Dead Men for the Russians zombie like appearance after being gassed for days. 100 Russian soldiers who were assumed dead by the Germans went on to lay waste to 7 German battalions and turned the tide of the war to the Russians favour. Pleeeeease make it happen.

Simon, this channel is turning into one I press the like button before even watching the vid. Well done. Brilliant. Thanks.

Omg I remember recommending this battle a few months back, huzzah and thank you Fact Boi.

Been waiting for this video. Very interesting battle.

I can only imagine the amount of relicts that could still be under the dirst in and around kursk.

Rest In Peace to those that passed away. I hope we can end all wars and battles so we can all live in peace.

I'm not sure that winning Kursk would even have given Germany the initiative. They were already losing a war of attrition and, as 1942 had already shown, their Blitzkrieg tactics were no longer working against the now experienced Soviet army.

great video as usual

Excellent video! Please feature the First Persian Gulf War

Love this video. It would be cool if you did one on the Dehomey wars.

My compliments in including the soviet counteroffensives in the video. So many analysts ignore the second phase of the campaign, which makes no sense really - from April 1943 it was the soviet plan to do a 'backhand blow' as described in your video.

Also great that you deal with the difficulty of knowing anything about the raw data on losses. People argue about this all the time as if the raw loss data was even known at the time.

“Mines are placed in darkness, in the cover of the night.
Waiting to be triggered when the time is right.”

Excellent video

Nice job!

Conveniently TimeGhost's World War 2 week by week documemtary series is just around the corner of Operation Citadel.

I agree with the comment that when discussing battles a few battle maps would not go astray