One of the book's greatest assets is the numerous Soviet after battle assessments, and their conclusions on why the 5th Guards tank army was given a bloody nose by the SS panzer grenadier divisions. The book continues with an overview of the end of the battle of Kursk. The author has also liberally supplied the reader with tactical maps of the engagement. It also has a set of color photos taken to show how the battlefield looks today. The book itself is over six hundred pages long, and is well supplied with photos from the war. The reason for the battle of Kursk, the German plan, and the days from July 5th to the 11th are gone into, is to give the reader a good foundation of the facts leading to the clash on July 12th. There is some background given on the Soviet main force in the battle, the 5th Guards tank army, and its leader Pavel Rotmistrov. The book shows more light on the Soviet side, but is sweeping enough to keep you informed about what was happening on both sides of the war. This is a book about that day, and the tremendous conflict that took place there. Zamulin was a staff member of the Prokhorovka state museum, and has immersed himself deeply in the battle of July 12th. It was translated into English by Stuart Britton. "Demolishing the Myth' is a book that was first released in Russian and written by Valeriy Zamulin. Just because we now know that Dubno in 1941 saw the greatest amount of tanks in one battle, with approximately 5,000 Soviet and 1,000 German tanks, it does not mean that the battle of Prokhorovka was any less important or earth shattering in its consequences or the lives of its veterans. That is not to say that the fighting was not bitter and to the death, as was all the fighting in the Kursk salient. Only in some Soviet dreams was the ground littered with burned out panzers. Long known as the 'death ride' of the panzers, Prokhorovka was really much smaller in scale than was imagined. The actual battle of Prokhorovka has been wrapped even tighter in an impenetrable fog than the rest of the Kursk battle. Unfortunately, due to Soviet propaganda and other untruths, it has been very hard for historians to peel back the layers and find the truth about Kursk. The tank battle at Prokhorovka has been stated many times to be the largest tank battle in history. Kursk is probably the second most written about battle following Waterloo.
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