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Although the Battle of Cherkasy was smaller in scale than the grand Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Battle of Kursk, its status on the Soviet-German battlefield was very important. At the end of January 1944, 60,000 elite members of Germany's "South" Army Group were surrounded by Soviet troops in the Kanev salient. Manstein quickly mobilized his armored forces to relieve the siege, but his assault momentum was exhausted in the face of the strong Soviet defense. The trapped troops had to break out on their own. After an extremely bloody battle, a total of more than 40,000 soldiers finally escaped. More than one-third of the besieged German troops failed to escape, and Commander Stemermann of the 11th Army was also killed in action. This book is a work that tells the ins and outs of the Battle of Cherkasy. In addition to in-depth analysis of this breakout battle at the strategic and operational levels, it also details every battle the German army engaged in day by day, showing the personal experiences of many grassroots soldiers.