In the book "From the Depths to the Skies", history is presented from an unusual perspective — through the eyes of ordinary people who were destined to both submit to and shape it. Each novella of the trilogy — the journey of a submariner and his trials in the depths of the ocean, the Afghan saga of brothers during the radioactive catastrophe at Chernobyl, and the intercontinental flight of a "crop duster" from Chernihiv to Tennessee through Russian Arctic territories, the Atlantic, and the Arctic Ocean — is based on real events.

These three forced journeys of youth, made for the sake of others' interests, are filled with both moments of light and hopeless hopes, as well as bitter disappointments. Before each journey, there is a retro-memoir about long-past achievements made in the very same places where our contemporary daredevils once again experienced the illusory taste of victory.

480 pages. Hardcover.