Stalin's General by Geoffrey Roberts

Author:Geoffrey Roberts [Roberts, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-679-64517-7
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

The German attacks made some progress, but for the most part Soviet defenses held. The battle’s climax came at Prokhorovka on July 11–12 when General P. A. Rotmistrov’s 5th Guards Tank Army clashed with two panzer corps. More than a thousand tanks did battle, with hundreds of losses on both sides. The Soviets lost more tanks than the Germans, but they could afford it, and Hitler was forced to call off the attack.

Shortly after the clash at Prokhorovka Zhukov visited Rotmistrov at his command post and inspected the battlefield. According to Rotmistrov, Zhukov stopped the car several times to look at the sites of recent tank battles:

It was an awesome scene, with battered or burned out tanks, crashed guns, armoured personnel carriers and trucks, heaps of artillery rounds and pieces of tracks lying everywhere. Not a single blade of grass was left standing on darkened soil. Fields, shrubs and copses were still smouldering after devastating fires. Zhukov gazed for a long time at damaged tanks and deep craters.… The Marshal shook his head, awed by the scene, and he took off his cap, apparently paying tribute to our heroic tank crew.27

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