Giffard Le Quesne Martel the Head of the Military Mission to the Soviet Union. He assessed the effectiveness of the Soviet order of battle and tactics during a visit to the frontline in the Kursk-Oryol region between 11 and 19 May 1943. In his autobiography, Martel describes advising the Soviet High Command, Stavka, to allow the Germans to strike first at the Battle of Kursk. To what extent his advice affected the course of the battle is debatable since his first conference with Stavka did not occur until late May 1943 while the Soviet Western Front commander, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, had been advocating the
Kursk (film) on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews ". Kursk (film) Kursk is a 2018 English-language French-Belgian drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg based on Robert Moore’s book "A Time to Die", about the true story of the 2000 "Kursk" submarine disaster. It stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow, Matthias Schweighöfer and Michael Nyqvist. Based on the 2000 K-141 "Kursk" submarine disaster, in which 118 Russian sailors died. "Kursk" sank