About the book: 2014 / TWO bestsellers in one volume! Airborne fighters about the “heavenly special forces” of the USSR! A former penalty soldier against the Luftwaffe aces! He fell under Stalin’s merciless order, according to which penal units were created not only in the infantry, but also in the Air Force. He survived in a penal squadron, “washing away the guilt with blood” in the fiery hell of Stalingrad and the fiercest air battle over the Kuban. He scored 25 victories in the air, was shot down more than once, wounded in battles and was almost written off from flying duty. But “penalties do not go into reserve” - and on the eve of the decisive battles of the Great Patriotic War, he returns to duty to beat the enemy over the Fiery Arc and the Dnieper! He will lead one of the first squadrons of “hunter” aces, which are formed in the Soviet Air Force specifically to combat the “experts” of the Luftwaffe. These squadrons, equipped with the best "winged snipers", must seize air supremacy from the Germans! These "Stalin's falcons" will clear the sky of "Hitler's vultures"»!