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Soviet Aces of World War Two

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Aircraft of the Aces: Men & Legends - Book 3

Published in 1999 by Del Prado / Osprey, UK
SOFTCOVER, 64 Pages
Size - 25cm * 19cm

No single volume in English has ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area, but now that restrictions have relaxed in the former Soviet Union, records of the deeds of the elite pilots of the various Soviet Air Forces are coming to light.

Although initially equipped with very poor aircraft, and robbed of effective leadership thanks as much to Stalin's purges in the late 1930s as to the efforts of the Luftwaffe, Soviet fighter pilots soon turned the tables through the use of both lend-lease aircraft like the Hurricane, Spitfire, P-39 and P-40, and home-grown machines like the MiG-3, LaGG-3/5, Lavochkin La-5/7/9 and the Yak-1/3.

Indeed, the later Yaks and Lavochkins were easily superior to the Bf 109 and Fw 190 at low-level – the favoured 'killing field' of pilots like Ivan Khozedub and Alexander Pokryshkin, both of whom finished with higher scores than the leading pilots in the West.

Fully Illustrated with B&W photos, 2 pages of line drawings, and 10 pages of colour drawings

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