Simple Russian man. A real commander. War hero. All these words are not said about different people. These words are about a man with a capital letter, about the famous tank general, later Marshal, Mikhail Efimovich Katukov. The 4th tank brigade led by him later became the core of the famous 1st Guards Tank Army, which became famous in battles near Moscow, on the Kursk Bulge, in Ukraine, in Poland, finally, on the territory of Germany itself. Katukov's tankers smashed the enemy troops of Generals Guderian, Manstein and Gotha, completing their glorious journey in the very heart of the Third Reich - near Berlin. Viktor Prudnikov's book is a study of the life and work of this prominent Soviet military leader and shows the influence of such an outstanding personality on the course of history.