Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一本开创性的书，2005年首次在俄罗斯出版，现在，瓦来利•扎穆林对库尔斯克普罗霍罗夫卡大冲突期间战斗严峻考验的研究有了英文版图书。扎穆林曾是普罗霍罗夫卡战场国家博物馆的工作人员，他多年来一直致力于研究库尔斯克战役，尤其是其南部侧翼的战斗，其中包括著名的亲卫队装甲部队对红军纵深防御的进攻。扎穆林对俄罗斯国防部秘密的中央档案馆进行了五年的深入研究，详细阐述了双方的计划和战术，最终于1943年7月12日在普罗霍罗夫卡发生了著名而有争议的冲突。扎穆林巧妙地将红军和国防军士兵和军官的回忆融入战斗的叙事中，书中部分内容借用了普罗霍罗夫卡战场国家博物馆的文件。扎穆林有居住在普罗霍罗夫卡的优势，因此他多次在战场上行走，对地形有着深入的了解。

扎穆林主要从苏联方面考察了这场战斗，揭示了红军在库尔斯克，尤其是普罗霍罗夫卡的真实代价和成就。他考察了阻碍沃罗涅日阵线遏制第四装甲军进攻的错误部署和错误决定，以及红军士兵和下级军官英勇自我牺牲的战斗，因为他们试图阻止德国的前进，然后于7月12日在普罗霍罗夫卡进行猛烈反击，粉碎了党卫队装甲军。这一天的战斗受到了特别的关注，因为扎穆林努力澄清交战部队的相对规模、这场战斗的实际面积以及双方所遭受的代价。P•A•罗特密斯特夫将军的第5近卫坦克军和A•S•沙多兹将军的5近卫军猛烈攻击亲卫队第1装甲掷弹兵师警卫旗队阿道夫•希特勒、亲卫队第3装甲掷弹师“骷髅”和亲卫队第2装甲掷弹手师达斯•雷奇的一部分，造成的损失尤其严重，扎穆林反复核实了反攻的细节，了解造成这样结果的原因。

扎穆林并没有无视肯普夫集团军第三装甲军团对第四装甲军右翼经常被忽视的努力，这一军团试图跟上党卫队装甲军团的前进步伐，然后突破北顿涅茨河的防线，与普罗霍罗夫卡地区的左邻相连。扎穆林描述了苏联最高司令部和沃罗涅日阵线如何用已经被击溃的部队迅速拼凑出这条防线，但需要以牺牲在普罗霍罗夫卡的反击为代价，用新的编队进行增援。

扎穆林的书印刷在厚重的纸上，并配以许多照片（包括一个显示当今战场景色的彩色部分）、特别委托绘制的彩色地图和大量的数据表，对库尔斯克战役文献的发展做出了杰出贡献，进一步摧毁了围绕这场战役成长起来的许多神话和传说。（ZY)

Awards/获奖情况： “扎穆林关于库尔斯克的新书代表了俄罗斯最近有关战争的最好学术成果，而且相对权威。”——大卫•M•格兰茨

“扎穆林的细致分析最终确定了苏联对普罗霍罗夫卡的反击是库尔斯克战役的决定性因素，也是红军发展的转折点。书中全面的学术和令人信服的推理，再加上出色的翻译使这部作品与大卫•格兰茨的作品不相上下。”——丹尼斯•绍沃特，科罗拉多学院

斯图尔特•布里顿是一名自由译者，居住在爱荷华州锡达拉皮兹。他负责翻译许多俄罗斯军事回忆录、作战史和作战研究，随着秘密军事档案的开放和新的俄罗斯学者的出现，这些回忆录、作战历史和作战研究在俄罗斯爆发，他们对事件和历史人物进行了更客观的研究。他有两部作品获得了奖项或好评，分别是瓦来利•扎穆林的《破除神话：1943年7月库尔斯克普罗霍罗夫卡的坦克战》和列夫•洛普霍夫斯基的《1941维亚兹马大灾难：红军对抗台风行动的灾难性立场》。最近著名的译本包括瓦来利•扎穆林的《库尔斯克之战：有争议的和被忽视的方面》和伊格•思德维契科夫的《蓝色对峙案：1942年7月，布良斯克阵线试图破坏德国向高加索地区的进攻》。他即将完成的翻译出版物包括尼古拉•奥夫查连科对1941-1944年敖德萨的防御、占领和解放的分析以及扎穆林对第7近卫军在库尔斯克战役中对肯普夫分遣队的作用和表现的详细研究。

Valeriy Nikolaevich Zamulin, a PhD candidate, is a leading Russian scholar of the Battle of Kursk. Since 1996, he has been working intensively in the most important Russian and foreign archival institutes, including the Central Archive of Russia’s Ministry of Defense and in the US National Archive, in order to gather and analyze documentary sources on the events in the Kursk bulge in the summer of 1943. In 2002, he was the first to describe the course of the famous Prokhorovka tank clash on a documentary basis, to publish previously unknown figures on the Red Army’s armor losses in the tank battle of 12 July 1943, and to give his assessment of the results, which differed from that previously accepted in Russia. He is the author of more than 60 scholarly works, including six books, in both the Russian and English languages, which have attracted great interest among scholars and history buffs. His most well-known work is "Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative" (Helion, 2011). The results of V.N. Zamulin s scholarly work are broadly used by military-historical authors, professors of state universities and Russia s military museums. Several documentary films and television programs have been made with his participation. In 2010-2011, he was the academic consultant during the creation of the new military history museum in the legendary village of Ponyri, which in the Battle of Kursk was the epicenter of the most savage and bloody fighting.

Stuart Britton is a freelance translator who resides in Cedar Rapids, IA. He is responsible for a growing number of translated Russian military memoirs, battle histories and operational studies, which saw an explosion in Russia with the opening of secret military archives and the emergence of new Russian scholars who take a more objective look at the events and historical figures. Two works that received prizes or prominent acclaim were Valeriy Zamulin’s Demolishing a Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk 1943 and Lev Lopukhovsky’s The Viaz’ma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Army’s Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon. Notable recent translations include Valeriy Zamulin’s The Battle of Kursk: Controversial and Neglected Aspects and Igor Sdvizhkov’s Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front’s Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942.