About the book: 1948 / “During the war years, the pilots of the air unit in which I served destroyed more than a thousand German planes. My contribution is also included in the combat log: fifty-nine enemy vehicles shot down in the air; about six hundred combat sorties. We fought with German air squadrons over Chisinau and the North Caucasus, over Rostov and Crimea, over the Dnieper and Vistula, over the Oder and over Berlin. For a number of years I wrote down what I experienced and observed. Among these short, cursory lines, sometimes scribbled between two combat missions, I have now chosen what, it seems to me, may be of some interest to our reader. Colonel N.N. Denisov provided me with great assistance in the literary processing of the notes.” [The contents of the book are approximately the same as “Wings of a Fighter”: a slightly shorter version; the same events are sometimes described in different words.]