All Episodes
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Kursk: Episode 16 — Eyes Over the Steppe
Kursk was not only a tank battle on the ground; it was also an air battle over the steppe. This episode description explores reconnaissance, close air support, interdi...
Kursk: Episode 17 — The Reserves Move
At Kursk, some of the most important forces were the ones deliberately held back. This episode description explains how the Soviet high command preserved powerful rese...
Kursk: Episode 18 — Prokhorovka Eve
On 11 July 1943, the southern battle at Kursk approached its crisis point near Prokhorovka. This episode description follows the convergence of German armored formatio...
Kursk: Episode 19 — 12 July
The great armored clash near Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 became the most famous day of the Battle of Kursk. This episode description examines the Soviet counterattack ...
Kursk: Episode 20 — What Prokhorovka Really Was
Prokhorovka has often been described as the greatest tank battle in history, but the real battle was more complicated and more revealing than the myth. This episode de...
Kursk: Episode 21 — Kutuzov Operation
Kutuzov opened on 12 July 1943, the same day Prokhorovka raged in the south, and it changed the scale of the Kursk campaign. This episode description follows the Sovie...
Kursk: Episode 22 — Hitler Calls It Off
Operation Citadel ended not only in the minefields and villages around Kursk, but also in command rooms where battlefield failure collided with strategic crisis. This ...
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 Ci...
Kursk: Episode 24 — Rumyantsev
Operation Rumyantsev marked the final southern offensive phase of the Kursk campaign, as Soviet forces moved toward Belgorod and Kharkov in August 1943. This episode d...
Kursk: Episode 25 — Belgorod and Kharkov
Belgorod and Kharkov were the visible payoff of the Kursk campaign, where Soviet defensive success became strategic pursuit. This episode description covers the recove...
Kursk: Episode 26 — After Kursk
After Kursk, the Eastern Front did not become easy for the Soviet Union, and Germany did not stop fighting with skill, but the direction of the war had changed permane...
Arracourt: Episode 1 — From Normandy to Lorraine
The season opens with Patton’s Third Army breaking out of Normandy and racing across France toward Lorraine, where the Battle of Arracourt would soon emerge from the c...
Arracourt: Episode 2 — When the Gas Ran Out
Patton’s armored drive across France slowed dramatically in late August 1944 when Third Army’s fuel supply could no longer keep up with its ambition. This episode expl...
Arracourt: Episode 3 — Crossing the Moselle
The renewed American offensive in early September 1944 placed the Moselle River at the center of the Lorraine Campaign and set the stage for Arracourt. Patton’s XII Co...
Arracourt: Episode 4 — Nancy Encircled
The encirclement of Nancy shows the 4th Armored Division at its most effective and most vulnerable, using speed to turn German defenses rather than grind through them ...
Arracourt: Episode 5 — The Open Flank
From 15 to 18 September 1944, the battlefield around Arracourt became a tense and unstable front stretching between Arracourt, Lunéville, and Château-Salins. Combat Co...
Arracourt: Episode 6 — The German Counterblow
Germany’s counterattack in Lorraine was an urgent attempt to hit Patton’s exposed flank before American gains around Nancy and the Moselle became permanent. This episo...
Arracourt: Episode 7 — Manteuffel and the Panzer Brigades
Hasso von Manteuffel and the German armored formations committed at Arracourt reveal the ambition and weakness of Germany’s Lorraine counteroffensive. The 111th and 11...
Arracourt: Episode 8 — Bruce Clarke’s Combat Command
Bruce Clarke’s Combat Command A was the American formation that had to absorb the main German blows at Arracourt and keep fighting under extreme uncertainty. This epis...
Arracourt: Episode 9 — Abrams and the 37th
Creighton Abrams and the 37th Tank Battalion become the human center of the Arracourt story, not as a finished legend, but as a combat team tested by fog, pressure, an...
