What it says in the title. What if Von Arnin doesn't ignore Kesselrings orders and gives the 10th armored division to Rommel.
How far can his offensive go now? How big could allied and axis losses get before Rommel runs out of steam?
Hang on, I thought that Rommel did have 10th Panzer at Kasserine Pass?
Not much different than OTL. This was a very complex event & badly understood. It was in fact a campaign, not a battle. It breaks down into almost a dozen seperate battles spread across a region larger than the Ardennes, & distributed over a week.
There are a lot of badly done treatments of this campaign. For something acessable I recommend the relevant chapters of Atkinson's 'Army at Dawn'. A carefull read of that & study of the maps can give a clearer understanding of what went on.
Does Atkinsons only look at and explain the strategic, tactical and operational decissions of the allied side or does he explain and show the same of the axis side. From the amazon description it seems like it only focuses on the US miliatry side.
Not much different than OTL. This was a very complex event & badly understood. It was in fact a campaign, not a battle. It breaks down into almost a dozen seperate battles spread across a region larger than the Ardennes, & distributed over a week.
Just that the entire German operation is commonly referred after a single engagement that was arguablly after the tipping point in the affair occurred suggests the level of misunderstanding.
Technically Kursk was just the German offensive. The follow up Soviet offensives were grouped together by Soviet historiography to make the fighting around Kursk seem like smaller event than it was. The Soviet offensives weren't at Kursk they were the Orel offensive and the Belgorod/4th Kharkov.That happens to a lot of battles though. Kursk wasn't just Citadel, for example, it was also Kutuzov and Rumyanstev.