About the book: 1984 / Army General E.F. Ivanovsky talks about the military affairs of his military friends, soldiers of the 2nd (later 8th Guards) Tank corps that distinguished themselves in the battles of the Great Patriotic War on the Don, near Stalingrad and Voronezh, on the Kursk Bulge, in the Warsaw-Lublin and other operations, tells about military skill, courage and exploits of tank crews, about the military brotherhood of the Red Army and the Polish Army.