Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

Moscow youth. This photo, taken in 1932 in Moscow, shows children from Evgeni Bessonov’s neighbourhood.

A photograph taken while at the Kamyshlov military infantry academy in 1942.

A junior officer, holding a submachine-gun, watches as histroops fight their way into a wood.

A junior officer leading Soviet infantrymen forward through wooded terrain.

An action shot of Red Army soldiers changing position during an attack.

A T-34-76 tank, heading to the front, fires at a distant enemy position.

A Maxim machine-gun crew opens fire on a village occupied by Germans.

A Soviet divisional ZIS-3 76mm gun being towed by a Studebaker US6 truck drives through the streets of a liberated European town.

A T-34-76 ploughs its way through a forest.

The wreckage of a German Mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 8t Sd.Kfz.7 destroyed during a Soviet assault.

A KV-1 heavy tank mounts a slight incline.

Tank Riders on a column of T-34-85 tanks move through the streets of a European town.

Another photo of T-34-85 tanks with tank riders.

These remarkable photographs show Soviet infantry taking cover as they come under German fire during a battle for possession of a forest.

A sparsely camouflaged Soviet artillery column moves forward.

A photograph taken in November 1944, somewhere in Poland.

A certificate awarded to members of Bessonov’s brigade to mark the liberation of Prague.

The 1st battalion of the 49th Mechanized brigade photographed on 9 May 1945 taking a rest while on their way to Prague.

Overall map to show the route from Moscow to Berlin followed by Bessonov.

Map to show the Bryansk front and the Orel offensive, 26 July 1943 to 20 August 1943.

Map to show the Kamenets-Podolsk offensive, July to August 1944.

Map to show the Lvov-Sandomir operation, July to August 1944.

Map to show the Vistula-Oder operation, 12 January 1945 to 26 January 1945.

Map to show the advance on Berlin, April 1945.