THREE BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME. The whole truth about the most dangerous front-line professions - tank crews, fighter pilots and attack aircraft - about those who paid the highest price for victories and died the most terrible death, often burning alive. Take a look at the Great Patriotic War from the cockpits of the Yaks and Lavochkins, through the sight of the T-34 and the armored glass of the Il-2. Find out how many minutes the T-34 survives in battle and what it’s like to fight “until the last tank” (the rest of the personnel were taken out to the rear only after the loss of all armored vehicles); how a fighter’s heart skips a beat after the command “Cover, I’m attacking!” and darkens in the eyes from overload at the exit from the attack; how many kilograms a pilot loses during a combat mission, what obscenities were broadcast during the “dog dump” and how much blood was paid for each victorious star on the fuselage. Feel what it means to be the “black death” and day after day to climb on a “humpbacked” (front-line nickname of the IL-2) into the thick of it, into the impassable thicket of anti-aircraft routes and the windfall of barrage fire, when each flight turns into “Russian roulette”, a suicidal “Ferris wheel” - with the only difference that they did not descend, but took off into hell... Ask yourself whether we, today, are capable of repeating their feat, whether we are worthy of our grandfather’s immortal glory.