Beloved by Stalin. 2nd Guards Tank Army in battle

According to Stalin himself, until the spring of 1945, he considered the best of the best 1st Guards Tank Army, but after the assault on the Zeelovsky heights and the capture of Berlin, he gave the championship the 2nd Guards Tank. It was this army before everyone who received the latest heavy tanks of Joseph Stalin IS-3, first shown to the allies at the victorious parade in Berlin. It was about the 2nd GTA Marshal Rokossovsky said that its brilliant operations became "an example of classical use of tank and mechanized formations of the Red Army."

The second tank passed with 6,000 km battles, freeing 3730 settlements, including 49 large cities. The second tank thug of the elite divisions of the Wehrmacht and the SS “Great Germany”, “Leibstandart Adolf Hitler”, “Dead Head”, “Viking”, the 505th and 506th heavy tag battalions of “Tigers”. The second tank broke all the “records” of the Nazi blitzkrieg, in just 15 days, having overcome more than 700 km from Vistula to the Oder. The second tank was the first to burst into Berlin to put a victorious point in the Great Patriotic War.

This fundamental work based on the materials of not only Soviet, but also German archives is the most complete, informative and objective study of Stalin’s favorite tank army.