{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Prokhorovka: the impaling — Episode 54","description":"This was armoured warfare at its most brutal, with tanks slugging it out at point-blank range. The tanks were as close as 10–15m. Once hit, many of the crews had little chance of bailing out and were splattered all over the insides of their tanks. Those who did try to escape their blazing tanks were mown down and their lifeless bodies left obscenely charred and shrivelled.\n\nMap 1: The Kursk Salient\n\n\n\nMap 2: The battle of Kursk — the southern sector\n\n\n\nMap 3: The northern sector\n\nMap 4: Another look at the battle of Prokhorovka\n\n\n\nSources:\n\nIan Baxter, Kursk 1943: Last German Offensive in the East. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publihsers (US), 2019.\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nRobin Cross, Citadel: The Battle of Kursk. UK: Lume Books, 2018.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017\n\nWikipedia: The Battle of Kursk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank) .\n\nKatyusha sound effect by Sound Effect by kuiycb (https://pixabay.com/users/kuiycb-28265913/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=114774)  from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=114774)\n\nSome tank sound effects by Dennis (https://pixabay.com/users/dennish18-26151496/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=143104)  from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=143104)\n\nHosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762457/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}