Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 A Tank Aficionado 11
Chapter 2 Lost Advantage 21
Chapter 3 Stalin's Mechanized Corps 29
Chapter 4 Desperate Counter-Attacks 39
Chapter 5 Tank City Falls 49
Chapter 6 The T-34 Escapes 59
Chapter 7 The Stalingrad Flank 71
Chapter 8 Save the Oil 83
Chapter 9 New Tank Armies 91
Chapter 10 Other People's Tanks 97
Chapter 11 Triumph at Kursk 105
Chapter 12 Battles for Kharkov 111
Chapter 13 Victory in the Crimea 121
Chapter 14 Stalin's Armoured Steamroller 129
Chapter 15 Punishing Traitors 139
Chapter 16 Stopped Before Warsaw 145
Chapter 17 The Road to Hungary 155
Chapter 18 Tanks in Budapest 163
Chapter 19 Beneath the Brandenburg Gate 173
Chapter 20 Heroes of Socialist Labour 179
Appendices 191
A Red Army Tank Units 1941-1945 193
B Soviet Tanks and Tracked Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1941-1945 201
Bibliography 241
Index 245