About the book: year / Beregovoy Georgy Timofeevich, Honored Test Pilot, Cosmonaut Pilot of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General of Aviation "Cosmonaut-12" - under this motto Georgy Beregovoy entered the history of space exploration. Before him, eleven people launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. He became the twelfth... The twelfth envoy of the country, which ten years ago opened the era of the conquest of outer space with the flight of a citizen of the Soviet Union, communist Yuri Gagarin, unprecedented in the history of mankind. Pilot-cosmonaut Beregovoi spent four days in orbit, but for this it took a whole life - a long, purposeful, human life is filled to the brim with struggle and difficulties. All of it was like pre-launch preparation. And his youthful years in the flying club, and the front, and sixteen years of work as a test pilot - any of these periods in one way or another helped him accumulate that experience, that professional skill and those qualities of character that are necessary for an astronaut. About his difficult, but direct and a clear path in life and is remembered by Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy in this book. Beregovoi G.T. Angle of attack. - M.: “Young Guard”, 1971. - 256 p. Literary record of G. Somov Photos from G. Beregovoy’s personal album and TASS photo chronicles. Circulation 200,000 copies.