About the book: 2016 / New super project of a leading military historian. The most complete, fundamental and authoritative study of the defense and liberation of Crimea in 1941–1944, based on documents from not only Soviet but also German archives, most of which are published for the first time. From Manstein’s breakthrough through Perekop positions to the failure of the first assault on Sevastopol, from the Kerch-Feodosia landing operation and the unsuccessful offensive of the Crimean Front to the Kerch disaster and the fall of the Main Base of the Black Sea Fleet, from the long German occupation of the peninsula to the rapid (in just a month) liberation of Crimea in the victorious spring of 1944, when our advancing troops lost four times less than the defending enemy - this book analyzes in detail all the operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in the struggle for the Crimea. Separately, the actions of our ground forces - tank crews, infantry, artillery - and the combat work of the Soviet Air Force and the Black Sea Fleet are considered.