« Battle of Kursk » Tom Zola

The battle for Kursk is won, but only days later, the Red Army launches several massive counter–offensives. While the Allies are preparing to land in Sicily, where a wounded Franz Berning recovers in a hospital, Field Marshal von Manstein, Commander–in–Chief of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front, takes a bold decision: to counter–attack with two Panzer units in the middle of the Soviet operation to reconquer the industrial metropolis of Tula, considered the last bastion on the way back to Moscow.

Lieutenant Josef Engelmann’s regiment joins the Tula operation and shortly afterward faces fierce tank battles.

Meanwhile, the world war rages with extreme severity in the Pacific when US Marine Raiders invade New Georgia in the Solomon Islands archipelago. Private First Class Tom Roebuck is thrown into the brutal battles fought between American and Japanese troops. When he takes a Japanese entrenchment, Roebuck finds a most alarming photograph