Mikhail Devyatev

The book is dedicated to the feat and fate of the legendary Soviet pilot who achieved the incredible - escaping from a concentration camp by hijacking a plane from a German airfield. The author was personally acquainted with his hero and visited many places related to his life, including the German island of Usedom, from which the captured pilot made his daring flight. Interest in Devyatev's personality grows every year. In the minds of the newer generation, who did not know the war, it is difficult to grasp the combination of fateful circumstances and fortunate coincidences that seemed to fall to the lot of an ordinary pilot. Nevertheless, he cannot be called ordinary: Devyatev is one of those who are described as extraordinary, outstanding. And all the military, aerial, and life adventures that befell him actually happened, not imagined by a fantasist.