About the book: 2014 / On May 9, 1945, the most terrible war in the history of Russia and all mankind ended. Contrary to all forecasts promising defeat, the USSR survived, and the Victory Banner was raised over Berlin. Thanks to the courage and perseverance of the Soviet soldier and the art of commanders and military leaders, the Red Army broke the back of the German military machine and destroyed Nazism. The new volume of the “Great Commanders of Russia” series is dedicated to those who exercised supreme military leadership, who led fronts and armies and struck behind enemy lines . These were the true sons of their people. Despite the bitterness of the defeats of 1941, they inflicted blow after blow on the Wehrmacht, their military leadership became the key to success on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War in 1942–1944, and bold strategic and operational decisions brought the long-awaited Victory in the spring of 1945.