A new book by a leading armored vehicle historian! The first domestic study of the phenomenon of aces Panzerwaffe. Michael Wittman, Otto Karius, Kurt Knispel, Ernst Barkman - the combat score of each of them exceeded a hundred, each cost a whole battalion. Perfectly trained, armed with first-class technique, they considered themselves smarter, stronger, stronger than all their opponents. They did not understand how these "Ivans" in their "thirty-four," pierced through by shells of "tigers" and "panthers," were able to stop their iron onslaught. Could. Kostroma and Rostov turned out to be stronger than the guys from Thuringia and the Upper Palatinate.