About the book: 2020 / We think that we know everything about the Great Patriotic War. Or almost everything. We know about the monstrous losses, about the unbearable pain, about the suffering, fears and deprivations. So much has already been written about this! But who will believe that the war has a hidden secret, mystical side, which front-line soldiers either do not talk about at all, or with great reluctance. In 1943, a fighter pilot, while carrying out a combat mission, suddenly saw a strange giant, devoid of propeller engines, emerge from the clouds white plane. Many years later, already middle-aged, he again saw the same airliner in a newsreel of national economic achievements - the flagship of the Soviet aviation Il-62 had just left the aircraft factory... In the battle on the Kursk Bulge, our tank was shot down. The platoon commander, having got out of the burning car, fell to the ground, but instead of enemy “tigers”, infantry and artillery, he suddenly saw strange horsemen around him with spears and swords in their hands... In the basement of an old Austrian house, Soviet officers witnessed an inexplicable, mystical phenomenon, about which they did not dare to report to their superiors, so as not to end up in a psychiatric hospital…