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Genre/Form: | History Personal narratives Personal narratives, Soviet |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barbarossa and the retreat to Moscow. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2007 (OCoLC)630152573 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Artem Drabkin; C J Summerville |
ISBN: | 9781844155637 1844155633 |
OCLC Number: | 85691849 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xv, 158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Vitaly I. Klimenko -- Alexander E. Shvarev -- Vitaly V. Rybalko -- Viktor M. Sinaisky -- Alexander F. Khaila -- Ivan D. Gaidaenko. |
Series Title: | Red Air Force at war. |
Responsibility: | [interviews by] Artem Drabkin ; with contributions by Mikhail Bykov (research and aircraft profiles), Alexei Pekarsh (introduction), Andrei Sukhrokov (appended interview with N.G. Golodnikov) ; translator, Bair Irincheev ; English text, Christopher Summerville. |
Abstract:
Tells the story of the air war over the Eastern Front, between the Soviet and German fighter Air Force. Using first-hand accounts, this book gives an insight into wartime life in the Soviet Air Force, and tells how a few soviet pilots turned the tables on the Germans and eventually won air superiority on the Eastern Front.
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