About the book: 2022 / The name of fighter pilot A.P. Maresyev was included in books, films and school textbooks as the name of a man of unbending will and the greatest courage, bravery and heroism . Who knows, the Soviet Union would have survived that terrible and bloody war if there had not been such true patriots of the Fatherland as A.P. Maresyev. In the post-war and subsequent years, thousands of heroes were raised by the example of his brilliant feat; he instilled faith and restored hope to a great many people who found themselves, for one reason or another, in difficult life situations. This book is the only complete biography of the legendary pilot, man- legends. It is written on the basis of the memories of both A.P. Maresyev himself and the memories of his fellow countrymen, classmates, fellow soldiers, military leaders, work colleagues, etc. Organically woven into the fabric of the narrative and presented to the reader for the first time are materials that the author found in the Central Archive Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, Central Archive of Military Medical Documents - a branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.