A Tale of a Real Man
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A Tale of a Real Man
49.99 €
The plot of "The Story of a Real Man" is based on real events that happened to pilot Alexei Maresyev during the Great Patriotic War (the writer changed one letter in his hero's surname). Maresyev's plane, having fired all its ammunition, was caught in a pincer movement by four enemy fighters, who decided to lead it to their airfield. With an unexpected maneuver, the pilot tried to break out of the pincers, but a burst of machine gun fire still got the engine. Maresyev pulled the plane, which was losing altitude, with all his might towards his territory, until it crashed into the treetops... The pilot was seriously wounded, but still frantically crawled towards his own people; on the nineteenth day, hungry and frostbitten, he was found by partisan children. Then - a hospital, amputation of both legs... But a year and a half later, Maresyev again sat at the controls of an airplane, and a fighter at that. Remaining crippled, the pilot still rushed into the sky, into battle. And he won. It is not so easy to break a person who has a desire to live in spite of everything and whose love for the Motherland is boundless. In 1946, at the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Goering, Reich Minister of the Imperial Ministry of Aviation, Reichsmarschall of the Greater German Reich, who was considered the second person in Nazi Germany after Hitler, admitted: “We did not know much, and we could not even suspect much. The main thing is that we did not know and did not understand the Soviet Russians. No agent, no matter how good, can reveal the true military potential of the Soviets. I am not talking about the number of guns, planes and tanks. We knew that approximately. I am not talking about the power and mobility of industry. I am talking about people…”
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