This book became a revelation for the West. This bestseller turned Europeans' ideas about the Second World War, revealing at least part of the truth about the Great Victory of the Soviet people. It was from this sensational book that the mass Western reader learned about the titanic battle on the Kursk Bulge, where the elite of the armored forces of the Third Reich burned. The author does not hide that work on this topic became a revelation for himself, making him realize the simple fact that the scale and cruelty The battles on the Soviet-German front were superior to anything the Allies had to face in the West, and that the fate of World War II was decided not on the beaches of Normandy, but on the vast expanses of Russia.