Fighter

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The Fighter is a novel about Soviet pilots, Stalin's falcons. They crossed the North Pole, toiled air routes to America. Their life is a metaphor for overcoming in the name of a higher goal, the trust of the people and the leader. Dmitry Bykov tried to look beyond ideology, to understand what kind of force ruled Soviet history. The word "fighter" in the novel is ambiguous. In the thirties in the USSR, each representative of the “new nation” could simultaneously be both a fighter and an exterminator, depending on the circumstances. Many plot twists of the novel, telling about exploits in the sky and behind-the-scenes battles in the instances, well illustrate this chapter of our history.
“This novel is my last appeal to Soviet history. At least I think so, because in it, it seems, her phenomenon was explained to himself. This is a novel about pilots - "Stalin's falcons", about polar drift and storming the stratosphere, about several geniuses and one reporter king, about a woman who is doomed to return to her killer over and over again ... ”(Dmitry Bykov)“ And then Petrov saw before a rapidly approaching fighter. He flew straight towards, for some reason not firing; huge, black, model unknown to him. He could not make out who was at the helm, he remembered the red stripes on the wings - probably the ace's personal war paint, there were such dudes. The closer Petrov flew up to him, the more clearly he understood: the size of this machine surpassed all human understanding, more than fifteen, no, twenty meters in scope, with an incredible propeller. Petrov realized that this screw was about to chop him up, grind him into mincemeat, and with a wild, last effort pulled him up. The giant advanced on him and devoured him."

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Barcode: 9785171364946 SKU: 70144653 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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