On this day in 1941 the Germans took Kursk.
The city is a major one and to a degree this accomplishment, and it was one, shows how people reading the newspapers, or sitting around tables in war rooms, would have had reason on this date to be gloomy about Allied, and at this time that really meant British and Soviet, prospects for winning the war.
Things for the Allies continued to look very bad.
The Germans tried again, and failed again, for Tula.
Today in World War II History—November 3, 1941
. . . points out that the first radar attack by a (British) submarine took place on this day, a major technological achievement, the Army commences Japanese language instruction. . . more than a little late, and that F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon, which I have not read, was published.
It was published posthumously. Indeed, while Fitzgerald was already well known due to The Great Gatsby, he was about to achieve a late prime position in American literature due to World War Two. This was because the US had thousands of editions printed for soldiers during World War Two, along with other novels.
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