I fought on the Kursk arc. Dragkin A.V.

The Kursk battle that lasted a long 50 days and nights (July 5 - August 23, 1943) became the most grand battle of World War II. However, in its scope, fierce, saturation of military equipment and the participation of a tremendous number of troops, the confrontation in the Kursk arc has no equal in history. On the pages of this book you will hear the living voices of tankers, artillerymen, mortars and ordinary infantrymen of the Red Army, who in the summer of 1943 tore off the last major offensive operation of the Wehrmacht, and then went to the counterattack provided a root fracture during the Great Patriotic War.

“The tanks went to the tanks, and it became truly terribly when, before our eyes, the T-34 towers flew away after direct hits. By the end of the day, everything around was broken, everything in smoke, the smell of burning, inverted guns, burning tanks, and mountains of corpses. Everything burned... ”

“ The glow over the Prokhorovka cannot be described in the words... The reconnaissance plant took up defense under the broken tanks, and in the evening we repelled two attacks by the German infantry... ”

“ The junkers did not get down, artillery Fired all the time, mortars. It was scary. The whole earth rose up. On the teeth sand, nothing is visible, the burning stood even in the afternoon... ”

“ 25 German tanks came to us, accompanied by infantry landing. We had nothing to stop the tanks. There were no longer anti -tank grenades. Behind us was our minefield “stuffed” by anti -personnel mines on each meter. The Germans surrounded us from three sides, shooting from tank machine guns. We had a choice - death or captivity. We chose death... "