Junior Lieutenant Peter Nagulin escaped from the Uman pocket, but his problems only increased.
General Muzychenko, whose help he was counting on, was taken by plane to Moscow, where the NKVD was investigating the circumstances of the deaths of the two armies, and Pyotr himself falls into the focus of the NKVD's close attention.
Meanwhile, a new catastrophe is brewing on the front, in comparison with which the defeat at Uman is only a prelude.
Guderian's and Kleist's tanks seek to close a giant pincer around the troops of the Southwestern Front defending the capital of Soviet Ukraine…
