Kursk: Episode 23 — The Last Southern Push
After Prokhorovka, the southern front at Kursk did not simply stop. This episode description follows the final German efforts to keep pressure alive after Operation Citadel’s original purpose had already collapsed. Listeners will learn how Manstein’s forces remained tactically dangerous, how limited operations such as the final southern push tried to inflict losses or improve positions, and why these efforts could not restore the failed double envelopment. The episode explains the difference between a force that can still win local fights and a campaign that can no longer produce strategic decision. Tanks, infantry, engineers, artillery, airpower, supply routes, and exhausted crews still mattered, but the logic of the battle had changed. The last southern push was an attempt to rescue meaning from a failed offensive. For more military history writing and books, visit MilitaryAuthor.me, and for magazines, galleries, and a massive archive of military photos and video, visit Trackpads.com.
