This book is the most complete, supplemented and corrected edition of the memoirs of the best Soviet ace, three times Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kozhedub, on whose combat account 64 destroyed Luftwaffe aircraft. This number did not include two American Mustang fighters, which mistakenly fired at Kozhedub's plane over Berlin in April 1945 and were immediately shot down in a retaliatory attack. Six years later, Ivan Nikitovich had another chance to grapple with the former allies - now in Korea, where he commanded the 324th Iad, the most productive air division of the Korean War, which destroyed 216 American aircraft, losing only 27 aircraft and 9 pilots. "An impeccable fighter, pilot and commander, convinced unmercenary, he did not possess "noble" qualities, did not know how and did not consider it necessary to flatter, intrigue, cherish the necessary connections - and did not make a career on the military-bureaucratic ladder, although he received marshal stars at the end of his life."