Rostislav Barda has always been lucky. And now fortune is again kind to him, granting him what he could never have dared to dream of. Using the opportunities that open up to him, he will strike the Germans in their own rear, form an army, take Minsk captured by the Germans, and prevent the blockade of Leningrad. For now, though, he is only a junior officer-tanker thrown by the will of a Soviet general into the Germans’ rear. So, the summer of 1942 in all its glory.