About the book: 2001 / "Before you, reader, are the diaries of the ace pilot of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union Timofey Sergeevich Lyadsky. They had never been published before. You are about to familiarize yourself with an amazing document of human destiny, eyewitness accounts of one of the most important and tragic events of the 20th century. I know that many readers are interested and trusting in diaries, letters and other genres of documentary fiction. In this sense, the book offered to you is doubly valuable and convincing. After all, in war, rarely does anyone keep diary entries, which differ from memories in the absence of any conjuncture and varnishing, since they are made “for themselves.” Timofey Sergeevich succeeded in this. With praiseworthy scrupulousness and patience, he describes everyday combat from May 1942 on the Kalinin Front until the victorious May 1945, which he met in Czechoslovakia».