About the book: 1960 / Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko was born on March 16, 1924 in Kadievka, Lugansk region. From July 1941 to January 1969, she served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. During the Great Patriotic War, she took part in battles on the Western, Crimean, 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts. Has several wounds. She was awarded ten government awards. Member of the CPSU since February 1943. In 1963, I. Levchenko’s first book “During the Great War” was published, and in 1967 the publishing house “Young Guard” published this book in a significantly expanded and expanded version called “The Tale” about the war years."I. Levchenko is the author of a collection of war stories “Nadezhda” (Military Publishing House, 1967), a short story “On a Fast Train” (Soviet Russia, 1968), a book of essays “People of New Germany” (Gospolitizdat, 1969) .Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR I. Levchenko pays a lot of attention to military topics in his creative work. “Stories about tank crews” is only part of a future book dedicated to the military exploits of soldiers of the 11th Guards Tank Corps, which in July 1942 received from the hands of the Moscow Komsomol members of the Banner of the MK and MGK Komsomol and worthily carried this combat Komsomol Banner through the fire of war from Moscow to Berlin.