This book brings together several battles of the Second World War, about which the domestic reader either knew nothing at all or had ideas about them that were greatly distorted by propaganda. The operation at El Alamein in the fall of 1942, as well as the tank battle of Prokhorovka in July 1943, were often heard, but a detailed analysis of these battles in the Soviet-Russian military historical literature was given fragmentarily. There were no works at all on the first steps towards the liberation of Belarus. Therefore, a brief description of the above operations will become for researchers another important component of the history of the greatest confrontation of the 20th century.