Based on recently available archival sources, Isaev describes the battle from a new point of view: that in fact it's not the tanks, but armoured units, which win or lose battles.

In June 1941 the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World War. About 3,000 tanks from the Red Army Kiev Special Military District clashed with about 800 German tanks of Heeresgruppe South. Why did the numerically superior Sov