Scorched earth : the Russian-German war, 1943-1944 / by Paul Carell ; translated from the German by Ewald Osers.

Translation of Verbrannte Erde.

Includes bibliographical records (pages 528-538) and index.

Part 1: The Battle of Kursk. Hitler stakes everything on one card ; The great pincers ; The tank battle at Prokhorovka ; The battle called off ; Betrayal at the Führer's headquarters -- Part 2: Manstein. Stalin wanted more than Stalingrad ; Alert on the Black Sea ; The third Battle of Kharkov -- Part 3: Battles on the northern wing. Leningrad : tragedy of a city ; South of Lake Ladoga ; Between Volkhov and Schlüsselburg ; Demyansk ; Operation Buffalo ; Velikiye Luki -- Part 4: Last chance. What next? ; The legacy of Kursk -- Part 5: To the Dnieper. The fourth Battle of Kharkov ; Fighting on the Mius ; The "eastern wall" ; Race to the river ; The Bukrin bridge-head -- Part 6: Between Kiev and Melitopol. A village named Lyutezh ; The objective was Kiev ; Zaporozhye ; The battle for the Wotan Line ; West of Nikopol ; Winter drama on the middle Dnieper -- Part 7: Disasters on the southern wing. Cherkassy ; Hube's pocket ; The battle in the Crimea -- Part 8: The Cannae of Army Group Centre. Deployment ; Attack ; Breakthrough -- Documents.