T-34 in action : Soviet tank troops in World War II / Artem Drabkin and Oleg Sheremet ; translators Dmitri Kovalevich ... [and others] ; English text, Ian Heath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drabkin, Artem, 1971-

Contributor:

Sheremet, Oleg.

Heath, Ian.

Series:

Stackpole military history series

Standardized Title:

I͡A dralsi͡a na T-34. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

T-34 (Tank).

World War, 1939-1945--Tank warfare.

World War, 1939-1945.

Tank warfare.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Soviet.

Soldiers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Soldiers.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Soviet.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

viii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Soviet tank troops in World War II

Place of Publication:

Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2008.

Summary:

Regarded by many as the best tank of World War II, the Soviet T-34 was fast, well-armored, and heavily gunned-more than a match for the German panzers. From Moscow to Kiev, Leningrad to Stalingrad, Kursk to Berlin, T-34s rumbled through the dust, mud, and snow of the Eastern Front and propelled the Red Army to victory. These firsthand accounts from Soviet tankmen evoke the harrowing conditions they faced: the dirt and grime of battlefield life, the claustrophobia inside a tank, the thick smoke and deafening blasts of combat, and the bloody aftermath.

Contents:

Chapter 1 'Guys, let's become tankmen!' / Artem Drabkin, Grigory Pernavsky 1

Chapter 2 'Against the T-34 the German tanks were crap' / Alexay Isaev 22

Chapter 3 'They couldn't penetrate my front armour' / Aleksandr Vasilievich Bodnar 45

Chapter 4 'I see that you're a real tankman' / Semen Lvovich Aria 57

Chapter 5 'My tank became just another victim' / Yuri Maksovich Polyanovski 65

Chapter 6 'The fires made it bright as day' / Aleksandr Mikhailovich Fadin 75

Chapter 7 'A shell hit the turret, and the tank filled with smoke' / Petr Ilyich Kirichenko 110

Chapter 8 'Our tanks were the best' / Aleksandr Sergeevich Burtsev 118

Chapter 9 'Only the luckier, smarter, sharper crews made it out alive' / Vasili Pavolovich Bryukhov 127

Chapter 10 'If you don't go, you'll be executed' / Arkadi Vasilievich Maryevski 149

Chapter 11 'If your unit still existed, you had to be with it!' / Nikolai Yakovlevich Zheleznov 154

Chapter 12 'Once you stop, your time is up!' / Georgi Nikolaevich Krivov 170.

Notes:

Originally published: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, c2006.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780811734837

0811734838

OCLC:

166390954