NEW front-line action movie from the author of the best-selling books “Commander of the Penal Company” and “St. John’s Worts” against the “Tigers”! The first novel is about the heroic crews of the most popular Soviet self-propelled guns SU-76, which the troops nicknamed “Bitch”, “Mass Grave” and “Naked-Ass Ferdinand”: weak armor and an open conning tower made this vehicle very vulnerable on the battlefield. However, the combat effectiveness of the maneuverable, unpretentious “sushkas” with their advanced 76-mm gun was very high, putting them on a par with the legendary “thirty-fours”: operating in the advanced infantry formations, firing direct fire, these self-propelled guns hit fortifications with sniper accuracy, enemy firing points and manpower were indispensable in assault groups and urban battles, and with competent command they successfully fought even against tanks. It’s just that the self-propelled gunners had to pay a terrible price for their victories: out of 14 thousand “sushkas”, less than five percent survived to the end of the war - it was not for nothing that their desperate crews called them “suicide bombers” behind their backs...