About the book: 2015 / During the offensive of the Red Army and the subsequent counter-offensive of the Wehrmacht in eastern Ukraine in the center The Soviet-German front forms a protrusion with a depth of up to 150 km and a width of up to 200 km, facing the western side (the so-called “Kursk Bulge”). From April to June 1943, there was an operational pause at the front, during which the warring parties made intensive preparations for the summer campaign. The enemy was preparing to take revenge for the defeat at Stalingrad. Hitler's military-political leadership, aware that its armed forces have lost their former superiority over the Red Army, is taking “total” measures to send everything possible to the Soviet-German front. At this time, the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command is conducting thorough intelligence and aerial reconnaissance, which reliably establishes that the main flows of enemy troops and military cargo go to the area of ​​Orel, Krom, Bryansk, Kharkov, Krasnograd and Poltava. The opinion is growing that German troops may go on the offensive in the coming days. Supreme Commander-in-Chief J.V. Stalin demands that the Central, Bryansk, Voronezh and Southwestern fronts be warned so that the troops of the fronts are in full readiness to meet the offensive. In this regard, the front command is carrying out a number of new measures to strengthen the defensive fire system, anti-tank defense and engineering barriers. Not everywhere these days there is relative calm on the fronts. Fierce air battles between Soviet aviation and German aviation unfolded in the Kuban. The scale and objectives of the air battle far exceeded the initial local goals of both sides and took on the character of a battle to destroy the most well-prepared enemy air groups on the eve of the decisive battles of the summer campaign of 1943. The success of the Red Army contributes to the growing resistance movement against fascism in France, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia and other countries. In addition to these events, in which, along with the soldiers of the Red Army, Czech, Slovak, Polish and other patriots, as well as partisans and underground fighters, take an active part in the fight against the fascist occupiers, in the twelfth book of the Chronicle of Victory “Spring of the 43rd ( 04/01/1943 - 05/31/1943)" includes vivid heroic episodes, interesting memories of war correspondents, military leaders, officers, soldiers, both Soviet and Wehrmacht, and their letters. The book includes daily sections: military operations in other theaters of the Second World War; on the labor front; Let's remember how it was; the role of the Allies in World War II; from archival materials and documents of the current day (directives, orders, decrees of the Supreme High Command, correspondence of Stalin with Churchill and Roosevelt, the situation in Leningrad, reports of the Sovinformburo, etc.) and 402 illustrations (photos, maps of military operations, posters, newspaper clippings etc.). The publication is intended for historians, researchers, military personnel of the Russian Federation, the younger generation and a wide range of readers.