Maresyev. Kartashov N.

The name of the fighter pilot A.P. Maresyeva entered books, films and school textbooks as the name of a person of unbending will and the greatest courage, courage and heroism. Who knows, the Soviet Union would survive in that terrible and bloody war if there were no real patriots of the Fatherland as A.P. Maresyev. In the post -war and subsequent years, thousands of heroes were brought up with the example of his vivid feat, he instilled faith and returned hope to the great many people who, for one reason or another in difficult life situations.

This book is the only full biography of the legendary pilot, a man-legend today. It was written on the basis of the memoirs of both A.P. Maresyev himself and his memories of his fellow countrymen, classmates, fellow soldiers, military leaders, work colleagues, etc. organically woven into the canvas of the narrative and first presented the reader, which the author found in the central archive Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the Central Archive of Military Medical documents-a branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.