About the book: 1979 / This documentary story tells about the unprecedented feat of the Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Devyatayev, about his comrades who fled to their homeland from a fascist concentration camp on an enemy plane. This is a story about the courage and unbending will of the Soviet people, who were not broken by any adversity. Pilot Devyatayev became the country's first captain of a river hydrofoil. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.