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 daring decision: to counter-attack with two Panzer units in the middle of the Soviet operation to reconquer the industrial metropolis of Tula, considered...