The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The myth of Hitler’s greatest armoured defeat 

REVIEW BY TOBY CLARK This new book by Dr Ben Wheatley of the University of East Anglia can claim success in the fields of both academic and popular history. With a nod to the Soviet ideal of ‘deep battle’, Wheatley (in his own phrase) used ‘deep research’ to comb the archival documents and tell how it really was at the Battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943, part of the wider fighting in the Kursk Salient on the Eastern Front in World War II. Reading thousands of documents in the archives can be drudgery of the worst kind, but a rare moment of excitement came when the author found a single document long believed lost: a German tank inventory for the day after the battle. With th