About the book: 1990 / In the most difficult year for our Motherland - the first year of the Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant General D. I. Ryabyshev commanded a mechanized corps, 38, 57 , 28th armies, Southern Front. These troops steadfastly fought fierce defensive battles. The book truthfully tells about many little-known, but important and interesting, sometimes dramatic and even tragic events of that difficult time..