

The Germans during the Blitzkrieg era had superior tactics and organisations for their tank forces. Isaev describes the battle from a new point of view: that in fact it's not the tanks, but armoured units, which win or lose battles.

Based on recently available archival sources, A. Why did the numerically superior Soviets fail? Hundreds of heavy KV-1 and KV-2 tanks, the five-turret giant T-35 and famous T-34 failed to stop the Germans. About 3,000 tanks from the Red Army Kiev Special Military District clashed with about 800 German tanks of Heeresgruppe South. In June 1941 - during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union - the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World War.

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