The Battle of Kursk, the climax of Operation Citadel, involved up to 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting ...

As German forces were pushed back along the Eastern Front after Stalingrad, Hitler’s generals looked for a way to regain the initiative in the east and settled on trying to pinch off a Soviet ...

Some may know about Tannenberg, the great German victory over the Russians in 1914, or the Allied failure at Gallipoli in 1915. But for the most part the eastern front is seen as a sideshow to the ...

German infantrymen during the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914. Photo: ... The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. By Nick Lloyd. W. W. Norton & Company. 672 pages.