Red Phoenix The rise of Soviet Air Power 1941-1945
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1982. Small quarto, hardcover, 286 pp., illustrated with maps on front and rear endpapers. Dust-jacket lightly creased, yet an attractive copy. The first time history of the four-year conflict between the Soviet Airforce and the German Luftwaffe in WWII. Caught unprepared by the German invasion of June 22 1941 the Russian Airforce was annihilated. But by the end of 1943, the Russian Airforce had gained the initiative over the Luftwaffe and at the end of WWII, it was the largest tactical airforce in the world. Item #270
ISBN: 0853685657
Price (AUD): $75.00
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