New book of leading military historian. Continuation of the best seller "On the peacefully asleep air fields". Detailed, on days and clock, reconstruction of battle actions of soviet aviation in the first weeks of war. NEW CHRONOLOGY of CATASTROPHE of 1941.Discovering and entering in a scientific turn enormous - thousands of pages! it is a volume of primary documents, analysing them from position of meticulous historian-researcher and professional aviation specialist, Mark Солонин finally and beyond retrieve destroys the "card house" of traditional historiography, not abandoning a stone on a stone from propagandist myths about the "Stalin falcons" and exposing authentic reasons of monstrous defeat of soviet ВВС