Review by Shrike58
This is the classic deep operational analysis of the battle that permanently put the Germans back on their heels on the Eastern Front for the rest of World War II. Of particular importance is Glantz's revisionist point that, for all the Cold War excuses from German historians, there was nothing to suggest that the Germans would not tear another deep hole in Soviet defenses the way they did in 1941 and 1942; making the Soviet achievement even more impressive,
