In March 1945, the Nazis made a last attempt to turn the tide of the war by launching a counterattack in the area of ​ ​ Lake Balaton. Here were concentrated the best tank forces of the III Reich, the elite of Panzerwaffe - the SS divisions Leibstandart Adolf Hitler, Reich, Dead Head, Viking, etc., equipped with convinced Nazis and armed with the latest armored vehicles (up to 900 tanks and self-propelled guns in total). While for the Red Army this direction remained secondary, therefore, the troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front had to repel the German counteroffensive on their own, not counting on reinforcements from the Headquarters reserve, which were necessary for the decisive assault on Berlin, relying only on their own skill and rich combat experience. And our troops fulfilled this task with honor, stopping an avalanche of German tanks, inflicting a decisive defeat on the enemy and huge irreparable losses. The defeat of the 6th SS Panzer Army was a real disaster for Germany, and Balaton was Panzerwaffe's agony. In the book of leading military historians, this grandiose battle was first described and analyzed at the modern level, with the involvement of data from both Soviet and German archives. The publication is richly illustrated with hundreds of rare photographs.