A "destroyer" is a novel about soviet pilots, "falcons of Stalin". They crossed the North pole, торили air paths to America. Their life is a metaphor of overcoming in the name higher aim, trust of people and leader. Dmitry Быков made an effort glance on other side of ideology, understand that after force managed soviet history. A word "destroyer" is in a novel - multiple-valued. In the thirtieth years in the USSR every representative of "new nation" simultaneously it could be a destroyer, and exterminated - depending on circumstances. Many with a plot turns of novel, telling about exploits in sky and subcarpet battles in instances, illustrate this head of our history well.