January-June 1942 The besieged Sevastopol withstands the fierce attacks of German troops... Unfortunately, this episode of the Great Patriotic War is still largely unknown. It is extremely difficult to write about the final stage of the defense of Sevastopol. There are many reasons: the lack of Soviet documents lost (and not drawn up) in the last days of defense, and the presence of a fairly well-established point of view on this issue. But this is not the main difficulty... The final stage of the city's defense is a heroic page in history, but it is also full of tragedy. This is a story of mistakes and heavy defeats. In Soviet times, it was customary to write only about its heroic sides, but this practice is vicious. Mistakes must be recognized and lessons learned. The new book of the famous Crimean historian Alexander Nemenko, on the basis of previously unknown documents, by day restores the defense of Sevastopol in the period from January to June 16, 1942.