NEW novel from the bestselling author of “Penalty Man, Tanker, Suicide Squad” and “Commander of the Penal Company.” Crucial battles of the Great Patriotic War through the sights of the most powerful Soviet self-propelled guns. The front-line truth of Stalin’s “hunger fighters” who knocked out the German “Tigers” and “Panthers”, exterminating Hitler’s “menagerie” at the cost of their own lives... The fiery summer of 1943. The Wehrmacht plans to regain the strategic initiative by breaking the back of the Red Army at the Kursk Bulge. The Germans are throwing the latest armored vehicles into battle - the heavy tanks Pz.V Panther and Pz.VI Tiger, the heavy-duty Ferdinand assault gun. The Nazis are confident that the Russians have nothing to oppose to the armored monsters of the Panzerwaffe. However, such a rival was found - these were our heavy self-propelled guns Su-152, whose shells hit any German panzer at any distance, and the desperate crews earned the honorable nickname “STEM WORTERS”...