These fierce battles became the “last parade” of the mechanized corps of the Red Army in the summer of 1941. This counterattack was supposed to close the huge gap formed in the Minsk direction after the border disaster, and restore the position of the Western Front. This great tank battle, in which over 2,000 armored vehicles participated on both sides (much more than under Prokhorovka!), It remained “in the shadow”, because The documentation of the Soviet units was almost completely lost.
Why is the counterattack of the 5th and 7th mechanized corps of the Red Army in the Senno area-Lepel was unsuccessful? By whose fault was not possible to realize our superiority in armored vehicles? How were the latest KV and T-34 lost? Why did our tank armades burned out in a matter of days, without having achieved a fracture in hostilities and without stopping the Germans? .. The new book of a leading military historian, based on the materials of not only domestic, but also foreign archives, answers all these questions. Collectible publication on coated paper …
Author
Kolomets Maxim Viktorovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
War and we. Tank collection
Genre
Military equipment
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