A new series about the greatest aviation geniuses. A new book from the bestselling author of “The Unknown Messerschmitt”, “The Unknown Junkers” and “The Unknown Heinkel”, completing the tetralogy about the best aircraft designers of the Reich. The first Russian biography of Kurt Tank, who turned the Focke-Wulf company into the leader of German aircraft manufacturing. His four-engine Fw.20°Condor, commissioned by Lufthansa, was the first to fly non-stop from Berlin to New York, and with the outbreak of war it became a menace on Atlantic convoys (in Churchill’s words: “the scourge of the Atlantic”). The Fw.189 tactical reconnaissance aircraft, which our soldiers nicknamed “Rama” and hated even more than the “laptezhniki” and “Messers,” was the “eyes” of the Wehrmacht. And the renowned Fw.190 is rightfully considered the most versatile combat aircraft of the Luftwaffe - not only a fighter, but also a strike machine, fighter-bomber and attack aircraft (it was with the Fw.190F that the dive bomber squadrons that had previously fought on “stukas” were re-equipped). The highest recognition of Kurt Tank's merits was the renaming in his honor of the high-altitude, ultra-high-speed interceptor that he created at the very end of the war - the Ta.152 could not be caught up by any Allied fighter... We can only regret that after the surrender of Germany the great aircraft designer was never brought to work in the Soviet Design Bureau - Tank agreed to move to our zone of occupation and even accepted an advance of 10 thousand marks, but at the last moment he changed his mind and emigrated to South America. This book restores not only the biography of the aviation genius, but also the true history of all his developments - from the first sports and training aircraft of the 1930s. to the latest projects he implemented after the war in Argentina and India.