About the book: 2011 / "Das Ziel treffen!" (“Target hit!”) was the last thing the downed Stalin’s Falcons and Allied pilots heard on the air. And the last thing they saw before death was the swift “pike” silhouette of the attacking “Messer”... Hitler’s propaganda called the young Luftwaffe aces “Der junge Adlers” (“Eaglets”). Their enemies dubbed them “air wolves.” And they themselves nicknamed their Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters “Der himmlisch Messer” - “the blade of heaven.” They imagined themselves to be the masters of the sky. Heroes of the Blitzkriegs, they even spoke a special “Blitz language”, breaking the rules of grammar for the sake of speed of pronunciation. They did not care about the laws of nature and human laws. But on the Eastern Front, in the blazing skies of Russia, they will have to choose between glory and dishonor, military valor and massacres, between the execution of criminal orders and a penal battalion... Read a new novel from the author of the best-selling book “Penalty Squadron” - a look at the Great Patriotic War from the other side , from the cockpit and through the sight of the Messer, through the eyes of a German ace demoted to the penalty box.