The book presents the history of the formation and combat path during the Second World War of the 3rd Guards Tank Army - one of the first tank armies formed in the Soviet Union. An analysis of the combat operations in which the army took part allows the reader to trace the stages of the formation of modern views on the management of tank forces. The book includes information about technical equipment, methods of training personnel, plans and conclusions of the command, based on archival documents. Numerous factual data are summarized and presented in a form accessible to the reader. The book contains tables. (DS)The ends of the pages are marked in the body of the book like this: , to view the page numbers you should open the file in a browser. (DS)