The work of historian M. A. Zhirokhov is devoted to the confrontation in the skies of the Soviet Arctic - one of the most climatically difficult sections of the Soviet-German front during the Great Patriotic War. Magnetic storms and polar nights, fogs and storms - in such conditions the warring parties had to conduct combat operations. Fighting in the tundra in 1941–1944. - one of the most interesting pages in the history of air conflicts. Here, real jousting matches took place between the best German and Soviet aces, comparable to those that took place in the skies over the Western Front during the First World War. Soviet pilots fought mainly on British and American fighters.