In March 1944, the roads of the Right-Bank Ukraine turned into "directions" drowned in mud. However, the front still rolled non-stop to the west. Bypasses and coverage of the T-34 with 76-mm guns forced the technically superior battalions of "Tigers" and "Panthers" to retreat. The final chord was the encirclement of the 1st Panzer Army of General Hube near Kamenetz-Podolsk. The number of encircled German troops amounted to about 200 thousand people. Nevertheless, Khube's army, having become a "wandering" boiler "and a" rolling "hedgehog", stubbornly made its way out of the encirclement...Who made the fatal decision to throw Katukov's tank army across the Dniester? Why was a whole SS corps with 300 tanks removed from Normandy shortly before D-Day? Whose ideas allowed Hube's army to avoid a repeat of Stalingrad? How did the "fortress" Tarnopol fall? Finally, why did the Fuhrer remove Field Marshal Manstein from command right in the midst of the battle? The new book by the leading military historian, based on archival documents from both sides, answers these questions, for the first time in all details restoring the course of one of the largest and at the same time little-known offensive operations of the Red Army, the tough confrontation between Zhukov and Manstein - the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation of March-April 1944.Editor's layout saved in PDF A4.