“Getting in” can happen in different ways: the best option is to do it as a whole country—or into the body of its ruler—and, of course, to stay connected to Wikipedia. One smart guy, and the others— not so much. The hero of this book didn’t get lucky: he knows how to fly a plane well, finished a flight school, but the computer stayed at home, and he just “passed by” the theory. He doesn’t have any great willingness to die for the Motherland, for Stalin. But it’s the early morning of June 22, the Odessa Military District—war is about to begin. What can a “manager” who never became a pilot oppose to the Luftwaffe? As it turns out—quite a lot.