The Rzhev Massacre through the eyes of its direct participants and modern historians! The whole truth about one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the Great Patriotic War, which lasted a total of about 15 months and claimed more than two and a half million lives - more than Stalingrad! It was not for nothing that the Germans called Rzhev “the cornerstone of the Eastern Front” and “the gateway to Berlin”, the Red Army soldiers dubbed this grandiose merciless battle “breakthrough”, “massacre” and “Rzhev meat grinder”, and historians consider it “Zhukov’s largest defeat”. Probably the most poignant front-line poems: “I was killed near Rzhev...” were written precisely about this tragedy. Why was the Rzhev massacre virtually forgotten in the USSR? Why was it never possible to encircle and destroy Army Group Center in the area of the Rzhev-Vyazemsky salient? Who is to blame for the fact that German troops broke out of a “bag” that was never “tied”? And is there any reason to blame G. K. Zhukov for this “lost victory”? In this book you will find answers to all these questions.