A NEW novel by the author of bestsellers "A Prisoner, a Tankist, a Suicide Bomber" and "Commander of a Penal Company." Turning battles of the Great Patriotic War through the sights of the most powerful Soviet self-propelled guns. Frontline truth of Stalin’s "beastfighters" who knocked out the German "Tigers" and "Panthers," at the cost of their own lives—annihilating the Hitler "menagerie"… Fiery summer of 1943. The Wehrmacht plans to regain strategic initiative by breaking the Red Army’s backbone on the Kursk Bulge. The Germans throw the newest armored vehicles into battle—heavy tanks Pz.V Panther and Pz.VI Tiger, and the super-powerful assault gun Ferdinand. The Hitlerites are certain that the Russians have nothing to oppose the armored monsters of the Panzerwaffe. But such a rival was found—our own heavy self-propelled guns Su-152, whose shells could knock out any German panzer at any distance, and the desperate crews earned the honored nickname "BEASTFIGHTERS"…