This pioneering book offers a compelling inside view of armoured warfare in World War II, from the perspective of the Soviet soldiers who went to war in the T-34, one of the most famous and effective tanks of the war. These first-person accounts evoke the shocking and bloody reality of combat, from [...]
The Soviet T-34 medium tank was one of the most famous and effective fighting vehicles of the Second World War. Along with the German Tiger and the American Sherman, it was a landmark in tank design that changed the course of the conflict. Much has been written about the technical history of the tan[...]
22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the German army unwittingly created its own nemesis, forging the modern Russian state in the process. Thus, for most Russians[...]