The Russians won the Great Patriotic War not because they suffered great sacrifices, but simply because they fought better. The secret of victory lies in the fact that everyone invested in it not only their life, blood, labor, but also talent. It was in the Novorossiysk-Taman operation of 1943 and in the September assault on Novorossiysk that this manifested itself very clearly. This particular operation of the Second World War is traced and reconstructed with the utmost scrupulousness, using genuine newsreels and eyewitness accounts.