Котел Хубе. Проскуровско-Черновицкая операция 1944 года.

In March 1944, the roads of Right Bank Ukraine turned into “directions” drowned in mud. However, the front still rolled non-stop to the west. By outflanking and enveloping the T-34s with 76-mm guns, the technically superior Tiger and Panther battalions were forced to retreat. The final chord was the encirclement of General Hube's 1st Tank Army near Kamenets-Podolsk. The number of German troops surrounded was about 200 thousand people. Nevertheless, Hube's army, having become a "wandering cauldron" and a "rolling hedgehog", stubbornly fought its way out of the encirclement... Who made the fatal decision to abandon Katukov's tank army across the Dniester? Why was an entire SS corps with 300 tanks removed from Normandy shortly before D-Day? Whose ideas allowed Hube's army to avoid a repeat of Stalingrad? How did the “fortress” of Tarnopol fall? Finally, why did the Fuhrer remove Field Marshal Manstein from command right in the midst of the battle? A new book by a leading military historian, based on archival documents from both sides, answers these questions, for the first time restoring in detail the course of one of the largest and at the same time little-known offensive operations of the Red Army, the fierce confrontation between Zhukov and Manstein - the Proskurov-Chernovtsy operation of March-April 1944

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