Wehrmacht officer's view. "Werner Haupt, a former Wehrmacht officer based on documents and eyewitness accounts, briefly and meaningfully describes the course of hostilities of Army Group Center, which at the beginning of the war dealt the main blow in the Moscow direction, occupied Belarus for several weeks, captured Smolensk, and reached the near approaches to the Soviet capital. Having been defeated near Moscow, Army Group Center fought heavy positional battles near Rzhev and Orel for two years. Failure and defeat on the Oryol arc was followed by a retreat, culminating in the complete defeat of the army group in Belarus in the summer of 1944. The author richly illustrates general reviews of events with documentary materials that give an idea of ​ ​ what the war looked like from a trench or from a tank tower.