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Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian.
The Germans launched their attack on the Kursk salient on 5th July 1943, and for
both sides this was maximum effort. The Soviets, however, informed by
intelligence of the impending German attack, had ample time to prepare huge
defensive works with hundreds of planned anti tank belts. They deployed 10 Tank
Corps, 5 Tank Armies, 1 mechanised Corps and 14 Field Armies equipped with 4000
anti tank guns and 6000 tanks. The Soviet Air Forces were equally impressive -
2600 aircraft. The Germans, outnumbered in every department, were forced to
scrape together whatever serviceable tanks they could from their badly under
strength Panzer formations. Most of the tanks deployed were old Panzer IIIs or
IVs, with only 147 Tigers available for action. The northern German attack made
very little headway, but, in the south, the Germans had grouped all of the SS
Panzer forces into the II SS Panzer Corps and these units, despite the enormous
Soviet forces ranged against them, began to smash their way through the Soviet
defences. The Luftwaffe too had brought together 1200 aircraft and these made an
immediate impact on the fighting - on the first day alone German fighters broke
up massive formations of Soviet aircraft, over 400 victories being claimed. |
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Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian.
The Germans launched their attack on the Kursk salient on 5th July 1943, and for both sides this was maximum effort. The Soviets, however, informed by intelligence of the impending German attack, had ample time to prepare huge defensive works with hundreds of planned anti tank belts. They deployed 10 Tank Corps, 5 Tank Armies, 1 mechanised Corps and 14 Field Armies equipped with 4000 anti tank guns and 6000 tanks. The Soviet Air Forces were equally impressive - 2600 aircraft. The Germans, outnumbered in every department, were forced to scrape together whatever serviceable tanks they could from their badly under strength Panzer formations. Most of the tanks deployed were old Panzer IIIs or IVs, with only 147 Tigers available for action. The northern German attack made very little headway, but, in the south, the Germans had grouped all of the SS Panzer forces into the II SS Panzer Corps and these units, despite the enormous Soviet forces ranged against them, began to smash their way through the Soviet defences. The Luftwaffe too had brought together 1200 aircraft and these made an immediate impact on the fighting - on the first day alone German fighters broke up massive formations of Soviet aircraft, over 400 victories being claimed.
Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm). Price £195.00 Signed by :
Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer
and
Feldwebel Erich Brunotte.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size approx 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm). Price £340.00 Signed by :
Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer,
Feldwebel Erich Brunotte,
SS-Sturmmann Ernst Kufner,
Unteroffizier Johannes Oesterhelt
and
SS-Oberscharführer Werner Wendt.
Kursk edition print. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm). Price £ Signed by :
Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer,
Feldwebel Erich Brunotte,
SS Sturmann Ernst Wilhelm Kufner,
SS Oberscharfuhrer Werner Wendt
and
Unteroffizier Johannes Oesterhelt.
Limited edition of 35 remarques. Paper size approx 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm) . Price £350.00 Signed by :
Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer,
Feldwebel Erich Brunotte,
SS-Sturmmann Ernst Kufner,
Unteroffizier Johannes Oesterhelt
and
SS-Oberscharführer Werner Wendt.
Signed limited edition print. . Price £
Signed Artist Special Reserve Edition of 50 prints, signed by the artist only Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm). Price £130.00
Knights Cross signature edition of 40 prints from the edition of 50 artist special reserve prints. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm). Price £255.00 Signed by :
Gerhard Fischer,
Albert Kerscher
and
Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel.
ITEM CODE DHM2266
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Kursk - Clash of Steel by Nicolas Trudgian
- The Signatures
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 | Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer
Heinz Radlauer learnt to fly gliders in 1940, aged 17, and joined the Luftwaffe in August 1941. After Fighter School, in June 1944 he was posted to join JG51 Molders then fighting on the Eastern Front near Minsk, scoring his first victory in October of that year. Heinz Radlauer fleew the Bf109G, the Fw190A, and at the end of the war the Fw190D, by which time he had notched up over 100 combat missions, flying his last combat mission on 30th April 1945. Credited with 15 air victories, all on the Eastern Front, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class.
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 | Feldwebel Erich Brunotte
Born in 1923, Erich Brunotte joined the Luftwaffe and started immediate pilot training in June 1941. He flew on the Eastern Front with 1./Gruppe Nauhaufklarungs Geschwader 102, and later transferred to fly with IV./Jagdgeswader 51 Molders, in the 13th Staffel. Promoted to Unteroffizier in December 1944, and Feldwebel in April 1945, he flew most marks of the Bf109, and the Fw190. His very last combat mission was in the Fw Dora 9 on 3rd May 1945 at Flensburg in northen Germany.
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 | SS Sturmann Ernst Wilhelm Kufner
Born in January 1925, Ernst Wilhelm Kufner joined the army on 30th April 1943, becoming a Tiger tank commander in the SS Panzer divisions. He fought on the Western Front throughout the D-Day landings and the subsequent battle for Normandy, later at the hard fought Battle of the Bulge, in Hungary and Austria.
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 | Unteroffizier Johannes Oesterhelt
Born in August 1925, Johannes Oesterhelt joined the Luftwaffe in July 1943 and was one of the youngest pilots to fly with JG51 Molders. Joining IV./JG51 he flew his first combat mission in January 1945, aged 19, flying with the 13th Staffel against the advancing Russians in the area around the northern city of Danzig, and protecting the retreating German army. He flew against Russian II-2s, Yak-3s, Airacobras, and also against Russian tanks. He scored 2 confirmed air victories before the war ended.
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 | SS Oberscharfuhrer Werner Wendt
Werner Wendt was born in Naugard / Pommern, today in Poland, in 1921. He joined the ,military at the outbreak of war in September 1939, and served first with an SS Artillery Regiment during the Battle of France3. In August 1940 he joined the SS Artillery Regiment Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler and fought in the Yugoslavian and Greek campaigns. Becoming a Tiger tank commander, he took part in the invasion of Russia, and in 1943 fought in a Tiger at the Battle of Kursk during Operation Citadel. Later in 1943 he fought in Italy, and then in 1944 at the Battle of Normandy, followed in December of that year by the Battle of the Bulge. Werner Wendt was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class.
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