Повесть о настоящем человеке

The book is a story about the Soviet pilot Alexei Meresyev, who was shot down in a battle during the Great Patriotic War, seriously wounded, but by force of will returned to the ranks of active pilots.
The work shows through the extraordinary fate of a military pilot the strength of the very one the Russian spirit, incomprehensible to Europeans, that for centuries did not allow anyone to conquer the great country, and again defended its independence in the most terrible and merciless of wars in history.
For the book “The Tale of a Real Man” B.N. Polevoy was awarded awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree for 1946.