“Akhtung! Achtung! Pokryshkin is in the sky! - rushed from all German warning stations, as soon as he took off, the “invincible” Luftwaffe experts hurried to leave the battle. “The bravest of the brave, the leader, the best Soviet ace,” says his award sheet. The only Hero of the Soviet Union, three times awarded this highest award not after, but during the war, Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin was not just a legend, but a living symbol of Soviet aviation. On his combat account, only according to official (severely underestimated) data, 59 enemy aircraft were shot down. And his motto is “Altitude – speed – maneuver – fire!” became a universal “victory formula” for all “Stalin’s falcons”. This book provides a unique opportunity to see the decisive air battles of the Great Patriotic War through the eyes of the aces themselves, from the cockpits of the Messers and Focke-Wulfs and through the sights of Pokryshkin’s Airacobra.