Annotated Bibliography

Primary Resources
Books

Manstein, von Erich Field Marshal. Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General Minneapolis, MN. MBI Publishing Company. 2004. This memoir, written by Manstein himself, this book was a first hand account of what Manstein thought of the battles he fought in. His view on Stalingrad and Kursk was especially valuable because both were very important battles and affected the outcome of the war.

Newton H, Steven. Kursk: The German View. Cambridge, MA. Da Capo Press. 2002. Print. Kursk: The German View had in depth information on Walter Model. It also gave us specific information on the conference that encompassed our turning point. We gained multiple German perspectives on the Battle of Kursk and their decision to delay. We also learned how important the victory on the Eastern front was to the promises Hitler had given to the German people.

Zhukov K, Georgi. Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles. New York: Harper And Row. 1969. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldX6Spw5fc This autobiography was very helpful to our website. It gave us a great amount of resources for the Russian side of Kursk. It gave many helpful quotes and had a wonderful perspective on the entire project with specific information on the tactics the Red Army used. This book was insightful in the aspect of the actual events of the battle.

Websites
The Battle of Berlin, 1945. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm This was a very amazing eyewitness account of the battle of Berlin. It showed how terrified the German civilians were and how they felt about their city being captured.

Hitlers Warriors- Manstein the Strategist. Interview. v=dueGnewPbFQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

From 33:25 to 33:47 video about Manstein and the Battle of Kursk and knowing the delay was a mistake. It comes from Manstein's assistant. They used this video on Operation Citadel Page.

Stevenson, Richard W. John Cairncross, Fifth Briton In Soviet Spy Ring, Dies at 82. The New York Times. October 10, 1995. We gained background information about the dangers involving the work that the spy ring had to face. It gave the warning to the Russians to build their defenses to repel the German offensive. 2

http://historum.com/european-history/10530-lend-lease-delivery-soviet-union-theirimpact-ability-red-army-conduct-war.html This was an incredibly helpful website, giving us specific information and troops numbers given to the Russian army by the Lend-Lease Act. This link provided a great addition to our website.

World War 2 Records & Newspapers. http://www.archives.com/genealogy/newspaper-genealogy-world-war-2.html. Joplin Globe. April 25, 1945. This website had a lot of fantastic information from newspapers from World War II. The newspaper article Reds Drive Deeper into Berlin was from this site. The article added a lot to the page and supported our ideas.

Images
http://www.allworldwars.com/Ice-Railway-Bridge-Over-The-Dnieper-by-LudwigSchmeller.html This fabulous map helped us portray the battlefield. It showed where the Germans attacked from and where they ended. It helped express the magnitude of the battle.

http://ww2db.com/photo.php?source=all&color=all&list=search&foreign&foreigntype_id= 40 These vivid pictures helped to reinforce our statements with of the Battle of Kursk. The pictures were a great addition to our website and really helped express our view of the battle. In our opinion it really helped pull our project through, with details that words just couldnt add.

http://www.venik4.com/2009/04/photos-the-battle-of-kursk-part-2/ Many of our battle pictures came from this site. The pictures helped us illustrate the magnitude of the battlefield and its aftermath. They also portrayed the horror of the battle. They also helped support the fact that the Battle of Kursk was the largest and bloodiest tank battle in History.

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/ The cartoons from this site showed how Dr. Seuss felt about the battle and many other aspects about the entire war. Dr. Seuss had a very interesting way of illustrating the Battle of Kursk and he did a very good job in making them easy to understand.

http://www.cvce.eu/viewer/-/content/162b9b8d-5d49-4b39-b0ac-1df74c5de525/en "The Red Army Sweeps." June 16, 1947 This political cartoon added a lot to the section Red scare sweeps across Europe because it is an image of Stalin with his hands stretched out sweeping across Europe. Stalin is spreading communism throughout Europe.

http://ww2cartoons.org/1942-cartoons/ On this web site we found most of our political cartoons that we used in our project.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/nanimaps.html On this web site we found maps of WWII that we used on our project.

Videos
WWII From Space. George, Simon. A&E Home Video. 2012. This DVD is a two hour history special that offers a satellite view of World War II. It gave us an excellent understanding of the impact of the Lend Lease Act on the Battle of Kursk, and how the Russians created an elaborate defense against the Germans which we used in our website.

The Russian Front. Four-Part narrated Televised series. Cromwell Films. 1998. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TlwR9gD78s After reading many secondary sources, we discovered this series which gave us a better visual understanding of the Stalingrad and Kursk Battles as well as providing us with first hand accounts and insights from historians which we used in our website.

General Georgi Zhukov. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAw8ugOCmkU Zhukov was the most successful Russian general in World War Two. Zhukov effectively lead the attack on Berlin in April/May 1945 and throughout the whole Russian campaign was known as the 'man who did not lose a battle. We gained background information from this video.

1943 Battle of Kursk-Russian. Footage Only. v=kTbCLYFF2eg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

This video gave us a view of the battlefield we had not seen before. It also had a clip of the Russians mass producing tanks which we used under rearming Russia. The video had a few seconds of hundreds of tanks passing by on a train which showed you how many men and machines Zhukov had at his disposal.

Red Army Capture Reichstag 1945. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBiKigbHLQ This interesting Russian propaganda film was about the Red Army taking Berlin. The section we used was of soldiers raising the red flag on top of the Reichstag. The clip supported the overall view of Russia taking the city and ending the war.

Secondary Resources
Books
Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich. New York. Hill and Wang. 2000. In this book we gained background information regarding the German invasion and the occupation of the Soviet Union.

Clark, Lloyd. Battle of the Tanks: Kursk 1943. Great Britain, 2011. Print This book gave us specific information on the tactics of the generals. It showed us the long term and short term effects of the battle. It also gave us background and causes leading up to the battle. One short term effect that this book provided was that the Battle of Kursk pushed the Germans back and the Russians conquered all the territory they had lost to the German Blitzkrieg.

Cross, Robin. The Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel. Classic Penguin. 2002. This book is very interesting and it has a lot of detail on the Kursk battle. It talks about different perspectives from the German side and the Russian side. This proved very helpful and was crucial to putting information on our website.

Dunn, Walter S. Kursk: Hitlers Gamble. Westport CT. Preager Publishers. 1997. This book talked about the primary reasons for the Battle of Kursk. One reason is that Germany wanted to show the world that it was still strong. It also gave valuable information on how crucial the decision to postpone the battle was.

Eberle, Henrick and Uhl, Matthias. The Hitler Book. New York. Verlagsgruppe Luebbe GmbH & Co KG, Bergisch Gladbach. 2005. This book we gained information about what went on in the Obersalzberg, Hitlers bunker for military operations. It showed us about Hitlers distress about the outcome of Operation Citadel, and the Allied invasion of Sicily. Overall it was a very insightful book to read about Hitlers military command bunker.

Ellis, Frank. The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army. (Modern War Studies.) University Press of Kansas. Portland, OR. 1999 This book has a lot of information on what side had which weapons and how they affect the battle. It also shows the differences between the German and Russian war tactics.

Fowler, Will. Eastern Front: The Unpublished Photographs 1941-1945. St. Paul, MN. MBI Publishing Company. 2001. We gained from this book many detailed pictures from all the Eastern Front Offensives. It gave us a look into the horrific conditions the soldiers faced at the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk.

Giblin, James Cross. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. New York. Clarion Books a Houghton Mifflin Company. 2002. Hitlers motivation for his decisions and his micromanagement was fully explained in detail in this book The life and Death of Adolf Hitler.

Glantz, David M, Harold S. Orenstein. The Battle for Kursk 1943: The Soviet General. Frank Case Publishers. 1999. This was a great book with a lot of information on the battle's causes and effects along with an overall view of the battle. It talks about the Soviet shortage of supplies and the factors involving the German defeat. It also shed light on parts of the Lend-Lease program that provided the USSR with supplies. It gave many reasons why Hitler postponed the battle and what the effects were of that decision.

Lemay, Benoit. Erich von Manstein: Hitler's Master Strategist. Havertown, PA. Casemate Publishers. 2010. This book had many good pictures and maps to help us understand how the troops were being moved. It talks about how Manstein was against delaying the battle and why Hitler decided to postpone the Battle of Kursk by three months.

Major General Melvin, Mungo. Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General. St. Martin's Press. 2010. This book not only had information on Manstein at Kursk, it had many pictures of him and Hitler and a lot of information on Manstein at Stalingrad. It talked about how Stalingrad also was important because Stalingrad stopped the Germans on the eastern front and then Kursk pushed them back.

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Websites
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/kursk- gamble.htm This website gave us specific information about the entire Eastern Front, and was extremely helpful to many parts of our website. There were many references to other websites and even books that we looked up and used. Many of our websites and articles came from here and were used in the website.

http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-kursk-germanys-lost-victory-in-world-war-ii.htm This is a unique website with a lot of information on the Battle of Kursk. It talks about how the Russians fought and what were their tactics. It also talks about the German arm and their mistakes, specifically their organization and tactics. The comments underneath the article gave interesting view points and led us to other sources that the commentators had used.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638793 This quote had a few good quotes on it, one of which we used. It really supported our turning point and ideas.

Sea Routes Of Soviet Lend-Lease. Http://english.ruvr.ru/2007/12/19/168522/ This article provided much information on the Lend-Lease act. It showed the four major routes in order of most important to least important and gave many quotes on the importance of the overall act. The Lend-Lease Act was very important to the Battle of Kursk and this article showed that very well.

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The Battle of Kursk. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_kursk.htm This is an interesting site that explains the Battle of Kursk in detail. It shows how weapons affected the outcome of the battle. It includes many details on the numbers of troops, tanks and other armored vehicles.

The Battle of Kursk: Myths and Reality. http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm This was a very informative site that explains in detail how weapons were a factor in the battle, specifically the new "super tanks" that Hitler relied so much on. It talks about how German tanks werent properly checked before being sent to battle. This caused engine failures (hydraulics malfunctions) and other difficulties (explosions of stored ammunition). This website goes over many of the myths that have been told about the Battle of Kursk and proves many of them wrong. It is definitely a unique website because of that.

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Videos
Generals at War- Battle of Kursk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FwwwV5Bi84 This documentary of the Battle of Kursk gave a visual of the German plans of attack and Russian plan of defense. It also showed us footage of the massive force the Russian Army had and the problems behind the Germans offensive.

Generals at War- Battle of Stalingrad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyty_rYE5uI Battle of Stalingrad was a very informative documentary and it revealed some of the decisions Hitler made. Hitler made many errors in World War Two which was a major factor of his downfall. The decision to attack Stalingrad being one of them.

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Interviews
Colonel, Jones Bill. United States Army (ret.) Written Interview. February 13, 2013. This interview showed us the long term effects on how the Battle of Kursk affects our world today, and had helpful insights on the strategic failures of Hitler's strategies. Overall this was a very helpful interview.

Osipova, Olga Viktorovna. Personal Interview. May 11, 2013. The interview with Ms. Osipova gave me a deeper understanding of how the civilians felt during World War Two. Her parents shared a great amount of information and storys about the horrors of warfare. We gained much information on life in Moscow as the Germans advanced towards the city, only to be called off by Hitler which gave the Russians time to drive them back.

Parker, Lowery J. Personal Interview. February 13, 2013 The interview with our History Teacher Mr. Parker gave us his point of view of World War II and why he thought the Battle of Kursk was an important battle. He talked to us about how Russia is still a major player today. Mr. Parker is a Vietnam veteran and he experienced first-hand the Cold War.

Thomas, Steve F. Marine. (ret.) Personal Interview. March 15, 2013. The interview with Steve Thomas helped us understand the influence of the Battle of Kursk on the Eastern Front. He helped us differentiate between Hitlers tactical and strategic errors. We learned why Hitler wanted to take the city of Stalingrad so badly and

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the errors he made that led to their defeat. It wasnt just because of its location or even its strategic importance, it was its name. Hitler wanted to wipe the name Stalin off the map.

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