How Russians learned to fight. Overwhelmed conversations with front -line soldiers

The basis of the book of journalist and writer Alexei Timofeev formed in the 1990-2000s during the preparation of interviews and essays for various newspapers and magazines, compiling collections of documents and memoirs about the commanders of the Great Patriotic War. The author happened to meet, a lot and confidentially talk with the heroes of that war, their colleagues and relatives. The main question that the author was interested in: due to which the Red Army defeated such a strong enemy? Did the Russians be able to fight? After all, some writers, publicists, especially in 1990? X, claimed that no, they did not know how to, flooded the Germans with corpses.
Combat and psychological training of pilots and scouts-sabotage, artillerymen, tankers and infantrymen, the most characteristic episodes of fights and battles, the ratio of losses, strategy and tactics, assessment of enemy actions are analyzed by the author based on personal conversations and documents