Frames decide everything. And at a turning point, in extreme situations, the heroes decide everything, - says the author of the book about the air marshal A.I. Pokryshkin. It was Pokryshkin who became the brightest exponent of the changes that made our 1941 army the 1945 army. He was the first of a cohort of those to break Luftwaffe morale. According to the testimony of the famous scientist Yu.N. Mazhorov, who during the war years served in the 1st separate radio brigade of the Supreme High Command, only in three cases the Germans switched from digital radio messages to clear text transmission: "Akhtung, partisan!" (a surprise attack by partisans); "Ahtung, panzer!" (breakthrough of Soviet tanks) and - "Akhtung, Pokryshkin! "The famous pilot was never a pampering of fate. And life could not be easy for a man who, as one of his students, Colonel General of Aviation N.I. Moskvitelev, says about him, "never twisted his soul anywhere, did not tell a lie." Many twists and turns of the life of a pilot and a military leader were first described in this book.