True a tank ace. "Armor -piercing, fire!" Bryukhov V.P.

“Puffs of smoke were striving over the field. Suddenly, I saw how the German average T-III tank crawls out of the same ravine, which was about 200 meters from me. At first I was even confused - I did not expect to see the enemy so close. But I quickly came to my senses, let him get out in an open place and destroyed the first shell. In less than a few minutes, a shell flew from somewhere and, getting on board, pulled us a sloth and the first skating rink... ”

The author of this book accepted military baptism in 1941 near Moscow, being a volunteer of a ski battalion, However, his commanding talent was fully revealed in the tank forces - in two years Vasily Bryukhov went from the commander of the tank platoon to the battalion commander and from Kursk to Romania, Hungary and Austria, replacing nine bounced “thirty -four” and destroying 28 enemy tanks. About everything that has been seen and experienced, about victories and losses, about how tank aces become and what it is-to burn the German “panthers” and “tigers” and burn himself in the driven T-34, he was extremely frankly told in his book.