The Battle of Kursk: a Geopolitical Victory

... the 4th Army and Army Detachment Kempf of Army Group South (Field Marshal Erich von Manstein). These were supported by the 4th and 6th Air Fleets. The entire grouping included over 900,000 men, about 10,000 artillery pieces and mortars, almost 2,700 tanks and self-propelled assault guns, and approximately 2,050 aircraft. In its turn, the Soviet General Headquarters’ 1943 summer-autumn plans provided for a broad offensive with a main strike in the southwest to destroy Army Group South, liberate ...