Evgeniya Lyakh

About the life of a major guy who ends up in the army, rethinks his life and helps his grandfather save his house.

When you're 16, you can do a lot for a big break: toast for the low score you got defending your classmates, bully your secret crash, make it to the funeral of a granny you never got to meet. Or, finally, for the first time to confess to my mother. But will your mom hear you when you're 16?

The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to Berlin from the USSR border was an airfield on the Estonian island Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack. Despite overwhelming odds, the first units completed the mission and made it back to base safely, unlike many others that followed.

The story of the first love of two schoolgirls, pure and sincere, that destroys their entire world.