![]() He’d suffered a terrible wound at the hands of the now he has returned with a cold fury to exact his revenge. Inexorable and devastating, a company of Mark VI Tiger tanks is commanded by one extraordinary SS officer, a Spaniard known as la Daga, the Dagger. ![]() ![]() Like Russia itself, the Berko family is suffering the fury and devastation of history’s most titanic tank battle while fighting to preserve what is sacred–their land, their lives, and each other–as Hitler flings against them his most potent armed force. In the skies, Dimitri’s daughter, Katya, flies with the Night Witches, until she joins a ferocious band of partisans in the forests around Kursk. In the turret above Dimitri rides his son, Valya, a Communist sergeant who issues his father orders while the war widens the gulf between them. Among them is an intrepid group of women flying antiquated biplanes they swoop over the Germans in the dark, earning their nickname, “Night Witches.” On the ground, Private Dimitri Berko gallops his tank, the Red Army’s lithe little T-34, like a Cossack steed. The Red Army around Kursk is a sprawling array of infantry, armor, fighter planes, and bombers. Hitler rolls the dice, hurling his best SS forces and his fearsome new weapon, the Mark VI Tiger tank, in a last-ditch summer offensive, code-named Citadel. But the greatest threat to Hitler’s dream of a Thousand Year Reich lies east, where his forces are pitted in a death match with a Russian enemy willing to pay any price to defend the motherland. To the south, an Allied invasion looms imminent. In the west, Germany strengthens its choke hold on France. Now he casts his brilliant vision on one of the most terrifying-and most crucial-battles of the the Battle of Kursk, Hitler’s desperate gamble to defeat Russia, in the final German offensive on the eastern front. ![]() Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Two armies locked in a bloody cataclysm that will decide history.ĭavid L. One nation taking a desperate gamble of war. ![]()
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