Tale of a real man

Boris Nikolaevich Poleva (1908 - 1981) - Soviet writer, screenwriter. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a military correspondent. This experience formed the basis of all the works of the writer.
The most famous work of B.N. Field The Tale of a real man (1941) is based on real events. For this book, the author was awarded the Stalin Prize, and the “Tale of a real man” became a classic of literature about the Great Patriotic War.
This exciting story about the pilot Alexei Meresieva. The prototype of the hero of the book was the Hero of the Soviet Union, the pilot Alexei Maresyev, whose plane was shot down in an air battle. The pilot finds himself in the forest without food and water, and later, in the hospital, both legs are amputated to him. But this does not prevent Meresiev from returning to his former life and continue to fly on a fighter aircraft. The pilot Maresyev is a strong, courageous person, with his feat, he shows how to remain a real person in the most inhuman conditions