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The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II

By 1943 after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad the Wehmachts panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front The tide of the war had turned Their combined arms technique which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942 had lost its edge Thereafter the war on the Eastern Front was dominated by tankled offensives and as Robert Forczyk shows the Red Armys mechanized forces gained the upper hand delivering a sequence of powerful blows that shattered one German defensive line after another

His incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tank tactics and weaponry during this period of growing Soviet dominance He uses German Russian and English sources to provide the first comprehensive overview and analysis of armored warfare from the German and Soviet perspectives

This major study of the greatest tank war in history is compelling listening