About the book: 1963 / There are books in which the reader is not looking for great stylistic beauties, but the facts presented in them, captivating truthfulness and high pathos of feelings fall into the reader's mind heart and remain there for a long time. This is how we see Ivan Krivonogov’s book “The Motherland Calling.” These are true notes from an eyewitness. They were written by a man who met the first storm of the war on the border, held off the onslaught of enemies for two weeks with the fire of his pillbox, was burned and exhausted, was captured, went through several Nazi prisons and camps, and finally, together with his friend Mikhail Devyatayev, organized the escape of a group of Russian prisoners to German bomber. The case is unprecedented in the history of the Second World War! The first edition of Ivan Krivonogov’s book was published in the summer of 1960 and received many warm, excited reviews from readers. Over the past two years, I.P. Krivonogov began to have new materials, learned something about the fate of some of his comrades in the concentration camps and on the flight, he became aware of what happened at Hitler’s headquarters, at the Peenemünde airfield, in the concentration camp, after the plane, led by M. Devyatayev, rose above the sea. Fulfilling the numerous wishes of readers, the Gorky Book Publishing House is releasing Ivan Krivonogov’s book a second time, including in the new edition materials that have become known in recent years