As a result of the so-called Second Battle of Kharkov, the Soviets lost around 270,000 troops killed, wounded and taken prisoner. Many prominent military leaders were killed in combat or committed ...

The Battle of Kharkov: How Nazi Germany Set a Deadly Trap for Russia In January 1943, the once-invincible German Wehrmacht was reeling, being pushed back across a 175-mile portion of the Russian ...

Tags: Adolf Hitler, Battle Of Kharkov, Erich Von Manstein, Military History, and World War II. The Battle of Kharkov: How Nazi Germany Set a Deadly Trap for Russia. September 30, 2018.

Russia desperately needs a second front; Germany mortally dreads it. These plain truths became plainer still as the Battle for Kharkov petered out.By week's end the thunder of battle had subsided ...

Like a monster warmed by the summer sun, the Nazi stirred. Along the Russian front, from the Black Sea to Leningrad, the shape, and probable direction, of his summer thrust emerged:> At ...

Kharkov: Disaster on the Donets represents the best and worst of the wargaming genre. It's an ambitious design, full of the historical details and accurate combat modeling that grognards crave ...

E ighty years ago the second Battle of Kharkov was raging in what was then the western Soviet Union. The Red Army had heroically driven the Nazi Wehrmacht back from the gates of Moscow. It ...