True a tank ace. Armor -piercing, fire!

"Puffs of smoke stood 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 at a loss - 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 into the board, pulled us a lazy and the first rink ... "
The author of this book took baptism in 1941 near Moscow, as a volunteer of the ski battalion, but his commanding talent was fully revealed to the tank troops - in two years Vasily Bryukhov went from the commander of the tank platoon to the battalion commander and from Kursk to Kursk Romania, Hungary and Austria, replacing nine drunk "thirty -four" and destroying 28 enemy tanks. About everything what he saw 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 gained T -34, he extremely frankly told in his book