NEW BOOK by a leading military historian. Continuation of the super bestseller “I Fought on a T-34”, which sold record copies. NEW memories of tankers of the Great Patriotic War. What did Wehrmacht veterans remember first when talking about the horrors of the Eastern Front? Armadas of Soviet tanks. Who bore the brunt of the war on their shoulders, paid the highest price for Victory and died the most terrible death? According to front-line soldiers: “Tank crews receive special treatment - they died terribly. If a tank was hit, and they were hit often, it was certain death: one or two might still manage to get out, the rest were burned alive.” And the tank crews themselves, when asked why they didn’t have “war-field romances,” answer simply and terribly: “We died, we burned...” This book makes it possible to see the war through the eyes of tank crews - through the gunner’s sight, the driver’s ajar hatch , a commander's panorama - how they lived on the front line and in reserve, on the battlefield and in rare moments of rest, how they fought, died and won.