Age of Tanks

Igor Prokopenko and the team of the program “Military Secret” examined the newest history of mankind from the standpoint of technological progress. This new book tells about the evolution of formidable combat machines and how their role on the battlefield changed over a hundred years. How did the technical characteristics of tanks influence the course of world wars? What ideas guided tank designers in different countries? Why is there so little talk about the great tank battle near Voronezh in 1942? How did Red Army soldiers manage to disable whole groups of enemy tanks alone? Who invented the Soviet T-34 tank and how did this machine become a “breakthrough tank”? Why are our tanks valued so highly around the world, and how do they differ from foreign models?

This book will comprehensively answer these and many other questions. You won’t just listen to an encyclopedia of tank building. We’ll show what it was like to design, build, and test tanks—and how people felt behind the controls and within the radius of fire of these war machines.

The main subject of this journalistic investigation is the stories of the people who stood behind the development of tanks and the conduct of tank battles. This edition is for those interested in the military history of our country and the whole world.