"Stalin's Falcons", Heroes of the Soviet Union... They were the pride of their country. They embodied the glory of a great era. They enjoyed national respect. Their portraits did not leave the front pages of newspapers. They were youth idols and role models. However, fate sometimes cruelly takes revenge for a meteoric rise, for success, for luck... For the first time in Russian literature, the book by Vladimir Konev tells about the tragic fates of pilots who reached the heights of glory in the Soviet Union, but for various reasons were deprived of the highest distinction of their Motherland, about heroes without Gold Stars. .