On the pages of diary of the German officer, pilot-destroyer, Хайнца Кноке an atmosphere is passed at first предвоенной, and then and to military Germany. The direct participant of those frightful and dramatic events in detail describes operational flights and deaths of comrades, carousals after successful victories, tears of mothers and sweet one, feelings experienced by fearless aces in every flight, and bitter taste, from the loss of nazi illusions.