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Description
Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket |
| Condition | Used very good |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Published date | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 27.94 x 21 cm |
| Author | Yefim Gordon |
| Editor | Midland Publishing Limited |
Description
From the team that published the critically acclaimed and hugely successful ‘Famous Russian Aircraft’ series comes Soviet Air Power in World War II, the authoritative guide to all of the aircraft flown by the Soviet Air Force during the conflict.
No country bore a greater brunt of World War II than the Soviet Union. Suffering 27 million dead during the German occupation, it was only the sacrifices made by its armed forces that enabled the USSR both to resist the Nazis and then to go on the counter-offensive. Key to this was the Soviet Air Force.
As well as exploring in-depth the individual aircraft types, this impressive new book also takes a closer look at the Soviet Air Force’s structure and aircraft fleet. Included are all of the unit insignia of Soviet air armies, divisions and regiments, as well as the varied artwork and camouflage schemes used on individual aircraft.
An extensive selection of unseen photographs and colour side views of all the aircraft types that operated in the immediate pre-war years and in World War II are featured, including many British and American aircraft flown by the Soviet Air Force and Soviet Naval Aviation.
The book also reveals information about the Soviet Air Force commanders and famous aces of the period; the ace’s aircraft and their personal insignia are illustrated, as well as the combat operations they flew against the Axis air forces between 1941 and 1945. Written by an acknowledged expert in Soviet and Russian military aviation, and impressively illustrated with photographs, profiles and detailed line drawings, this definitive guide to the Soviet Air Force in World War II will be of interest not only to aviation and military history enthusiasts but also to modellers of this period.
The author:
Yefim Gordon was born in 1950 in Vilnius, USSR, and graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1972 as an engineer/electronics designer. He has been a resident of Moscow since 1973 when he started collecting photographs and books on the history of Soviet aviation; this has now developed into a major archive.
Since the 1980s he has been a professional aviation journalist and writer, with over 50 books published on Soviet/Russian aviation in Russian, English, Polish and Czech, as well as close to 100 magazine features and photo reports.
He is also an accomplished photographer, with countless photos published in the Western press; the current edition of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft features more than 50 of his photographs.
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