This book is dedicated to one of the most famous Soviet aircraft of the Great Patriotic War - the Il-2 attack aircraft. Among the Soviet soldiers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht, the plane received many different - beautiful and not so - nicknames: "humpback," "flying tank," "cementbomber," "iron Gustav," and finally, "black death." Being, in fact, the main attack aircraft of the Red Army Air Force, the attack aircraft was used for attacks on a wide variety of targets - from infantry, seated in trenches, to ships and fortified strongholds.