The Red Army went on a general offensive by conducting Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev on the southern side and continuing Operation Kutuzov on the northern side. The Soviet Union thus seized the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front, which it held for the rest of the war. If ever there was a time for a sober, authoritative dissection of the myths the Soviets fashioned from the Eastern Front, it is now.' - Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent for The Times Prokhorovka battle (July 1943)] (in Russian). 1998. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015 . Retrieved 17 July 2015.

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While the battle is generally considered a tactical success for the German side due to the high numbers of Soviet tanks destroyed, [203] in the wider perspective the Soviets successfully completed their defensive operation at Prokhorovka and created the conditions for their decisive counteroffensive, Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev, just as planned. [204] Ultimately there was no German breakthrough at Prokhorovka or elsewhere in the Kursk salient, becoming the first time in the Second World War that a major German offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate into their operational or strategic depths. [205] With the end of Operation Citadel, the strategic initiative permanently swung over to the Soviet Union for the rest of the war. [206] Misconceptions and disputes [ edit ] Size of the tank battle and German losses [ edit ]The two German pincers, the one from the north commanded by Model, the other from the south with Manstein in overall command and Hoth in charge of 4th Panzer Army, both ran into fierce resistance from Soviet forces in entrenched positions. The northern offensive made particularly slow progress. Glantz, David (2013). Soviet Military Intelligence in War. Hoboken, NJ: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). ISBN 978-1-136-28934-7. Frieser, Karl-Heinz (2017). The Eastern Front 1943–1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. ISBN 978-0-19-103514-2. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) Glantz, David M.; Orenstein, Harold S. (1999). The Battle for Kursk 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study. London: Taylor & Francis (Frank Cass). ISBN 0-7146-4933-3. – This report, commissioned by the Soviet General Staff in 1944, was designed to educate the Red Army on how to conduct war operations. It was classified secret until its declassification in 1964, and was later edited and translated to English by Orenstein and Glantz. Its original title was Collection of Materials for the Study of War Experience, No. 11 (Russian: Сборник материалов по изучению опыта войны № 11, romanized: Sbornik materialov po izucheniyu opyta voyny № 11). Showalter, Dennis E. (2013). Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk, The Turning Point of World War II. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-9465-0.

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Wheatley reveals the truth about the Battle of Prokhorovka in July 1943, “the greatest armoured clash in history”: it was indeed an operational victory for the Soviets, but it came at a huge cost and – contrary to popular belief – utterly failed to destroy Hitler's elite panzer force. Bill (A W) Purdue was, before his retirement, a Reader in the History Department of the Open University and is now a Visiting Reader. He was a contributor to consecutive courses on the relations between war and society in the 20th century. Among his publications are The Second World War (1999 and 2011) and The First World War (2015). Further reading The book is also a masterclass in source analysis. In other words, the examination of a document not only for what it says, but for its own history. Who produced it? And for what purpose? Wheatley shows that hard work and diligence with a source – questioning whether it may be biased or simply false – is so vital to good history. There is a brilliant lesson here for aspiring academics. The USSR went on to inflict a major defeat on Germany during the Moscow counter-offensive during the winter of 1941–1942, closing the door on the Germans ending the war on the terms Hitler set out. The later Battle of Stalingrad in 1942–1943 ended the possibility of German victory completely. A remarkable new history of th

Stein, Marcel; Fairbank, Gwyneth (2007). Field Marshal von Manstein: The Janus Head. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company. ISBN 978-1-906033-02-6. This particular engagement was a tactical defeat for the Soviets, but the charge inflicted enough damage to help stall — and eventually halt — the German army’s Citadel offensive. Ben Wheatley, ‘A visual examination of the Battle of Prokhorovka’, Journal of Intelligence History, Vol 18 (2019).