The Mystery of the Nameless Height. The 10th Army in the Moscow and Kursk Battles. From Serebryanyye Prudy to Roslavl

It was a rapid and bloody march from the southeastern Moscow region through the districts of the Tula and Kaluga regions to Smolensk region. Month of persistent and fierce attacks during the Moscow counteroffensive, and then - almost two years of positional fighting in the Kirov area and Warsaw highway. And - the new jerk on the Northern Face Kursk Arc. It was the soldiers of the 10th army that happened to take the famous nameless height, that the most, "from an unfamiliar village", about which a song will be built shortly after the war.
In the book of a famous historian and writer, Laureate of literary premiums "Stalingrad" and Prokhorovskaya Field Sergey Mikheenkov, on the basis of documents and testimonies of front-line, is narrating about this difficult campaign. A separate topic takes place events related to the secret operations of the GRU in the so-called "Kirov corridor", according to which our intelligence and sabotage detachments and groups penetrated into the deep rear of German troops in the areas of Vyazma, Spas-Demenas, Bryansk and Roslavl. Another topic is the fate of the 11th separate free battalion in battles between Kirov and Roslavl.
Declassified archives and revelations of participants of those events formed the basis of many chapters of this book