NEW BOOK by a leading military historian. Continuation of the super bestsellers, which sold a total circulation of more than 100 thousand copies. Memories of Soviet tank crews who fought on the legendary T-34. “As soon as I managed to shout: “The gun is on the right!”, the blank pierced the armor. The senior lieutenant was torn to pieces, and all the blood from him, torn pieces of his body... all this on me! I got a small fragment of armor in my leg, which I was later able to pull out myself, and the driver got a fragment in his shoulder. But the tank was still moving, and he, shifting the gear lever with one hand, brought the “thirty-four” out of the fire...” “I decided to counterattack the German tanks that had broken through from the flank. He himself sat in the gunner's place. The distance to them was about four hundred meters, and besides, they were coming with their sides towards me, and I quickly set fire to two tanks and two self-propelled guns. The gap in our defense was eliminated, the situation stabilized...” “In the battle for the village of Teploye, a direct hit from a shell jammed the drive wheel of one of the attacking Tigers. The crew abandoned a virtually serviceable new tank. The corps commander gave us the task of pulling the Tiger to the location of our troops. They quickly created a group of two tanks, a squad of scouts, sappers and machine gunners. At night we moved towards the Tiger. The artillery fired harassingly at the Germans to hide the clanging of the Thirty-Four tracks. We approached the tank. The box was in low gear. Attempts to switch it failed. They hooked the Tiger up with cables, but they broke. The roar of tank engines at full speed woke up the Germans, and they opened fire. But we had already put four cables on the hooks and slowly dragged the Tiger to our positions with two tanks...”