Any chance of the losers fighting a holding battle was lost when the other side retook the city of Orel.
Any chance of the losers fighting a holding battle was lost when the other side retook the city of Orel. In the three months leading up to it, the defenders had brought in 500,000 railway wagons of supplies, and despite the attackers' 30-mile penetration into the defender's salient, the attacking command, under Model and Hoth, could not find a breakthrough. After nine days of horrendous fighting, the forces of Vassilevsky and Zhukov. FTP, name this July 1943 defeat of the Germans in Russia, known as the largest tank battle in history.
Any chance of the losers fighting a holding battle was lost when the other side retook the city of Orel.
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