The Battle of Kursk

Type: Event

As of November 2026, The Battle of Kursk has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Dan Carlin (Nov 2020). Mentioned as part of the broader WWII context.

The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare. It ranks only behind the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier as the most often-cited turning point in the European theatre of the war. It was one of the cos