Two bestseller in one volume! The best novels about the pilots and distant bombers of the Great Patriotic War, based on real events and testimonies of veterans (M.P. Odintsov himself made more than 200 sorties on IL-2 and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union twice). If the memories of the front -line soldiers are called “trench truth” – what to call the revelations of “Stalin Sokols”, who took off daily to hell? “Heavenly Truth”?
They took baptism with fire on the first, most terrible days of the war, inflicting bomb-stroke blows to the advancing German troops, tank columns, echelons, airfields, acting as a rule without a fighter cover, carrying the most severe losses from enemy anti-aircraft guns and attacks of the Messers. They were the first to bring retaliation to the “Log of the Beast” – the Soviet distant aircraft bombed Berlin and Bucharest in the summer of 1941. They are accustomed to mortal risk and military work for wear, desperate raids in the opponent’s deep rear and even more dangerous blows on the front edge. But …
Author
Odintsov Mikhail Petrovich, Chernykh Ivan Vasilievich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Military militant. The best bestsellers
Genre
Modern domestic prose
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