VDV - “troops for war.” This is precisely the meaning that real paratroopers put into this concept. The author of this book is a veteran of the airborne troops, who gave them more than a quarter of a century and went through a difficult path from a soldier to a senior officer in the Office of the Airborne Forces Commander. Mikhail Skrynnikov talks in detail not only about his own fate, but also inextricably associated with the airborne assault, but also about the history of this elite branch of troops, about the military operations in which he happened to participate. The reader has the opportunity to survive the first parachute jump, feel like the “white bone” of the Airborne Forces - a military reconnaissance officer, capture the Dushman leader in an Afghan village, block Georgian militants in Abkhazia. “There are no impossible tasks” - this motto of the airborne troops best characterizes the hero of the book and his comrades - real soldiers of their Motherland.