1943. Battle of Kursk. Great fracture. Matonin E.

The book is the memory of the military generation, the book is both the voice of a distant era and the assessment of modern historical science. She is about one of the most key events of the Great Patriotic War, and the entire Second World War - about the Battle of Kursk. It lasted 50 days - from July 5 to August 23, 1943. This heroic and tragic time is reflected in the documents and newspapers of that time collected in the book, as well as letters, diaries and memories.

Their authors are a variety of people. From the world -famous commanders to ordinary infantrymen, tankers, pilots, armor -piercing, who burned the German “tigers” and “panthers”. And also - writers, artists of teachers and ordinary Soviet citizens. Some of them on themselves experienced an unprecedented blow by the German “armored fist” near Kursk, but were able to withstand, survive and force the Nazis to retreat. Others were in the rear, but left behind the most valuable evidence of eyewitnesses about the atmosphere in which the country lived during the Battle of Kursk. The main task of the book is to give the widest panorama of the Battle of Kursk, which is often called the "great fracture" in the Great Patriotic War.

Indeed: after the summer of 1943, Germany had already lost a strategic initiative forever, and the Red Army Non -stoply advanced west until the victory. But do not forget that this fracture was possible only thanks to the tremendous tension of forces, unprecedented heroism and huge losses, which the Soviet Union suffered during the 50 “Kursk days”. The book is illustrated by unique photographs and contains a number of documents, including those from which a secret of secrecy was only removed.