About the book: 1982 / The author, a participant in the battles in Spain, in the pre-war years worked in the military department of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. He was directly involved in the production and testing of new models of armored vehicles. Since April 1942, A. A. Vetrov has been in the active army. He holds the position of deputy commander of the 15th Tank Corps for technical matters, and as part of this formation he takes part in battles on the Don, near Kharkov, south of Orel. He talks about the unparalleled courage of tankers on the battlefields, about the creators of the newest, most modern armored vehicles in his book, intended for the general reader..