The best military-air action thriller from a recognized master of the genre. Our contemporary fights against "Messerschmitts" on the Eastern Front of the Great Patriotic War. After an emergency landing in July 1941, a pilot from the future goes through all the circles of heavenly hell—burning in a damaged Pe-2—and breaks through to his own side from German-held territory. He fights on a tough LaGG-3, which on the front was nicknamed the "varnished guaranteed coffin," and is put on trial, which replaces his penal battalion with a penal squadron. And to get back to his own time, the "time-displaced" soldier will have to "atone for his guilt with blood," taking the enemy down at any cost.
I’m going for a ram!