About the book: year / For the first time in 60 years! The long-awaited reissue of an early book by the greatest Soviet ace, virtually unknown to modern readers. Today, few people remember that, in addition to the famous “Loyalty to the Fatherland,” I. N. Kozhedub was the author of four more books, and the first editions of his memoirs, published during Stalin’s lifetime, are significantly differ from later texts, from which not only all references to the Leader are excluded (a common practice after the “exposure of the cult of personality”), but also entire chapters. In this edition, the original text of the memoirs of the great pilot is printed in full, without censored distortions, additions or cuts.