Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Why Kursk is the Most Overhyped Battle in History

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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RE: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Why Kursk is the Most Overhyped Battle in History

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In sheer numbers of obsolete equipment that had lost utility on the Western Front Kursk is impressive. A World War one battle fought in the Second world War. When you look at the industrial capacity to mount the V program, the U Boat War, Air War not to overlook flak all facing west its nothing to get excited about. The Russian front did what it did put Germany in a personnel war while the West denied them any materiel advantage to deploy there.
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RE: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Why Kursk is the Most Overhyped Battle in History

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The best book I have ever read on Kursk is by George Nipe (though it covers only the southern wing of the battle).

In addition to excellent combat coverage, he discusses the various myths associated with the Kursk battle.
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RE: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Why Kursk is the Most Overhyped Battle in History

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I thought the Battle of Kursk was notable just due to the sheer number of tanks that were involved.
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