"Dizziness from successes" after the defeat of Germans under Moscow appeared short, but was to disburse for him large blood - in spring and summer of 1942 Red Army suffered the row of shattering defeats that on the scales were comparable with the catastrophe of the war beginning, but that it was already impossible to justify the "suddenness of hostile attack". Why 42th so not became the "victory" year of "complete defeat Hitler troops", how did Stalin declare in the order? Through whose fault instead of that to "drive Germans westward without a stop", was Red Army throw-away to Volga and Caucasus? How was it succeeded to avoid a crash and return strategic initiative? And where did a war fate decide actually - in Stalingrad or at quite another front?.From the Kharkov catastrophe to the Stalingrad triumph, from the "Rzhev meat grinder" to the breach Leningrad blockades - this book allows newly to give a glance on the decision battles of war, exposing the hidden motive of events and restoring authentic history of critical year Great Home.