
The day after Vasiliy Krysov finished school, on 22 June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and provoked a war of unparalleled extent and cruelty. For the next three years, as a tank commander, Krysov fought against the German panzers in some of the most intense and destructive armored engagements in history-including those atStalingrad, Kursk and K?nigsberg.
This is the remarkable story of his war. As the commander of a heavy tank, a self-propelled gun -a tank destroyer-and a T-34, he fought his way westward across Russia, the Ukraine and Poland against a skillful and determined enemy which had previously never known defeat. Krysov repeatedly faced tough SS panzer divisions, like the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Panzer Division in the Bruilov-Fastov area in 1943, and the SS Das Wiking Panzer Division in Poland in 1944.
Название: Panzer Destroyer: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander
Автор: Vasiliy Krysov
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год издания: 2010
ISBN: 1844159515
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Язык: english
Размер: 15,8 МБ
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