THREE BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME! A unique collection of memories of Great Patriotic War pilots who flew practically on all types of bombers that were in service with the Air Force of the Red Army—Pe-2 and Pe-8, SB and DB-3, Il-4 and Tu-2, R-5 and Po-2, A-20 and B-25. Pilots and navigators, flight engineers and radio gunners—they struck the enemy by day and night, from dives, from the “horizontal,” and at low altitude. They worked over the front line and enemy capitals, strategic targets and communications, airfields and ships. They broke through anti-aircraft fire and repelled attacks by German fighters; they more than once returned from combat flights “on sheer nerve and with one wing,” burned in damaged bombers, and for weeks made their way back to their own side from enemy territory after forced landings… All of this—losses and victories, bloody hard work of the front, and frontline brotherhood—they shared in interviews gathered in this book.