Ebook: Panzer Destroyer: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander
Author: Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡, Krysov Vasiliĭ, Krysov Vasiliy
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Military participation--Russian, Tank warfare, World War 1939-1945, World War 1939-1945--Participation Russian, World War 1939-1945--Soviet Union--Tank warfare, History, Personal narratives, Krysov Vasiliĭ -- 1922-, Soviet Union. -- Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ -- History, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives Russian, World War 1939-1945 -- Participation Russian, World War 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Tank warfare, Soviet Union. -- Ra
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Pen and Sword
- City: Havertown;Soviet Union
- Language: English
- epub
The day after Vasiliy Krysov finished school, on 22 June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and provoked a war of unparalleled extent and cruelty. For the next three years, as a tank commander, Krysov fought against the German panzers in some of the most intense and destructive armored engagements in history?including those at Stalingrad, Kursk and Königsberg. This is the remarkable story of his war. As the commander of a heavy tank, a self-propelled gun -a tank destroyer-and a T-34, he fought his way westward across Russia, the Ukraine and Poland against a skillful and determined enemy w.;List of Illustrations and Maps; Editor's Preface; 1. My Journey to the Front; 2. Stalingrad; 3. Kursk 1943; 4. Operation Kutuzov; 5. To the Dnieper River, August-September 1943; 6. Reorganization near Moscow, September-October 1943; 7. The Liberation of Kiev, November 1943; 8. The Pursuit to Fastov; 9. Von Manstein Attempts Another 'Backhand Blow'; 10. Rest and Refitting; 11. The December Zhitomir-Berdichev Offensive; 12. From the Front to a Hospital and Back Again; 13. The July 1944 Offensive on the Kovel Axis; 14. From the Western Bug to Siedlce, Poland; 15. In East Prussia; Notes; Index.
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