If you believe the statistics, in all the battles of the Great Patriotic War, including the famous Prokhorovka, our tankers suffered the heaviest losses not from German panzers - the most dangerous enemy was not the famous "Tigers", "Panthers" and "Ferdinands", not the legendary " Stukas”, not sappers and faustniks, not the formidable “Acht-Akht” anti-aircraft guns, but Panzerabwehrkanonen - German anti-tank artillery. And if at the beginning of the war the Nazis themselves dubbed their 37-mm anti-tank gun Pak 35/36 a “door knocker” (virtually useless against the latest KVs and T-34s, it nevertheless burned BT and T-26 like matches), then neither 50 -mm Pak 38, neither the 75-mm Pak 40, nor the 88-mm Pak 43, nor the super-powerful 128-mm Pak 80 deserved disparaging nicknames, having become real “tank killers”. Unsurpassed armor penetration, the best optics in the world, a low, unobtrusive silhouette, superbly trained crews, competent commanders, excellent communications and artillery reconnaissance - for several years the German anti-tank forces had no equal, and our anti-tank tanks surpassed the Germans only at the very end of the war. In this book you will find a comprehensive information about all anti-tank artillery systems that were in service with the Wehrmacht, including captured ones - about their advantages and disadvantages, organization and combat use, defeats and victories, as well as top-secret reports about their tests at Soviet training grounds. The publication is illustrated with exclusive drawings and photographs.