Motor War: Stalin's Tank Club. 100 hours to live

"Motor War" - a series of studies on Soviet tanks, aircraft engines and aircraft of the Second World War. When writing the book, Andrei Melekhov first of all set himself the task of understanding how technically prepared the Red Army was for the beginning of the Great War. Did she have enough tanks, planes and artillery tractors? How good were the BT tanks and I-16 aircraft adopted in the 1930s? Were the motors driving them modern and reliable enough? Why in the summer of 1941 the Red Army and the military were not helped by the state-of-the-art models at their disposal, such as the T-34 and KV tanks, the MiG-3 fighters and the Pe-2 bombers? Finally, how many tanks and combat aircraft were at the disposal of the supposedly "unprepared" for the war of the Soviet Union - both in general and on its western borders? How many did Germany and its allies have? Could they be considered "ready"? .. Trying to answer these and many other questions, Andrei Melekhov came to a completely unexpected conclusion & hellip;