Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Now, faced with the invasion of Sicily on July 10, Hitler cancels his Operation CITADEL, the double envelopment of the Russian forces inside the Kursk salient. The cancellation is caused not by a lack of German success in the attack, but because the Allied landings in Sicily necessitate the shipping of German reinforcements from the Russian front to the West. Weakened by this loss of men and material, the Germans bleed and die on the Eastern Front. By mid-August, the Russians will win the greatest tank battle of the war, inflict extremely heavy casualties upon the Germans and reach the outskirts of the strategic city