The reader is presented with a book that has become, in a way, a legend even before it appeared in Russian. She was anathematized in Soviet times as an inveterate anti-Soviet and a falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War. I suspect, and not without reason, that until the mid-1980s, for the storage of such literature (and God forbid - its Russian translation) and its popularization, a history buff was guaranteed a way to the correctional labor institutions of our vast Motherland or to the corresponding medical institution. But times change, although not in everything and not all at once. And now you can read the book about “the best pilot of all times and peoples” on the “great, mighty” one. Alexey Stepanov: