I Fought on the T-34. Book Two

Two main reasons made the T-34—the most mass-produced tank of the Great Patriotic War—legendary: the uniqueness of its design and the people who fought, died, and won on this machine. And while plenty has been written about the technical side of creating, producing, and combat use of the famous “thirty-four,” much less is known about frontline life and the fates of tank crews.

A real breakthrough was Artyom Drabkin’s book “I Fought on the T-34”—the main military-historical bestseller of 2005. Now you have its long-awaited continuation, which, like the first volume, is based on numerous interviews with veteran tankmen who went through the fires of war together with their machines. As in the first book, they share with the reader soldiers’ truth about life at the front—about battles fought, hard military labor, the reasons for defeats, and the true price of the Great Victory…