И. Х. Баграмян. Так начиналась война

The book is in good condition, with fox stains on the endpapers. Description: Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Kh. Bagramyan begins his memoirs in August 1940, when he arrived from the Academy of the General Staff in the Kyiv Special Military District to the post of head of the operational department of one of the armies, and then became head of the operational department of one of the armies and head of the operational department district headquarters. With the outbreak of war, the district turned into the Southwestern Front. The author introduces the details of the important events of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, traces how Hitler's blitzkrieg plan collapsed from the first days of the invasion of Nazi troops into our Motherland. The heroic defense of Kyiv is especially widely displayed. The book ends with a counteroffensive of our troops near Rostov and Yelets in the autumn and winter of 1941.