Soviet Aces of World War 2 Paperback / softback
by Hugh Morgan
Illustrated by John (Aviation author/artist) Weal
Part of the Aircraft of the Aces series
Paperback / softback
Description
Although initially equiped with very poor aircraft and robbed of effective leadership, due 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 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 Yak-1/3.
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 Khozedub and Poryshkin, both of whom finished with higher scores than the leading pilots of the West.
This volume aims to dispel many of the myths about combat on the Eastern Front.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:100 pages, 100 b/w; 40 col
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/10/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9781855326323
Other Formats
- EPUB from £12.23
- PDF from £12.23
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:100 pages, 100 b/w; 40 col
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/10/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9781855326323
