Curated playlist
Tank battles involving Germany
- Battle of Alam el HalfaMontgomery knew Rommel's attack plan before the Battle of Alam el Halfa began. Ultra intercepts told him.
- Battle of GazalaRommel used a decoy attack at Gazala, then swung his tanks south around the British line by night.
- Operation CrusaderErwin Rommel was not even in Africa when Operation Crusader began. A deception plan had him expecting December.
- Second Battle of El AlameinA thousand guns opened fire at once at El Alamein on October 23, 1942. A 13-day battle had begun.
- First Battle of El AlameinThe First Battle of El Alamein was fought at a railway station with no value of its own.
- Battle of the BulgeIn the Battle of the Bulge, an American general answered a surrender demand with one word: Nuts.
- Falaise pocketPilots flying over the Falaise pocket smelled the carnage from hundreds of feet up.
- Battle of Białystok–MinskAfter the Western Front collapsed in 1941, the NKVD executed its commander, General Pavlov.
- Battle of KurskBefore the Battle of Kursk, one Soviet front dug 4,200 kilometres of trenches. Stalin knew the attack was coming.
- Battle of Kiev (1941)The 1941 Battle of Kiev played only a small role for the city itself. It trapped 452,700 Soviet soldiers.
- Operation BagrationOperation Bagration began exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
- Battle of the Kerch PeninsulaSoviet troops landing at Kerch in December 1941 had fishing trawlers and whaleboats, not landing craft.
- Third Battle of KharkovA German counterstrike in February 1943 trapped Soviet spearheads that had just retaken Kharkov.