The book by the leading military historian is a real mosaic of the Great Patriotic War. Here are only separate fragments of that mosaic of fierce battles that await the reader on the pages of this book: June 22, 1941—the actions of the Brandenburg special-purpose battalion’s saboteurs; the tank war in the Arctic in summer 1941; the breakthrough of the Stalin Line in Ukraine; the Battle of Moscow; offensives near Rzhev and to the north of Stalingrad; battles for Sevastopol and on the Kursk Bulge.
Your attention is presented with a collection of articles, among those written by me for various publications. Not all of them were accessible to the general public. However, the point is not only in the audience of the materials. During the time that has passed since these articles were written, the author has acquired new documents, new facts have been uncovered, and finally, the existing material has been rethought from the standpoint of accumulated research experience.