NEW BOOK by the leading historian of armored vehicles, continuing his T-34 encyclopedia! Everything about the various options for modernizing the legendary tank - T-34M, T-43, T-34-85M, T-34-100, T-44 - which were superior to the serial "thirty-four" in all respects, but only the last one was accepted for service of them, and even then at the very end of the war. Why did the Soviet leadership abandon more advanced and promising vehicles designed to replace the T-34? Do these prototypes stand up to comparison with German armored vehicles? What if the successors of the “thirty-four” had nevertheless gone into production - could they have changed the course of the tank war on the Soviet-German front?