Eastern Front Air War, 1941-1945 (eBook)

Anthony Tucker-Jones (Autor)

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2016
144 Seiten
Pen and Sword (Verlag)
978-1-4738-6164-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This lavishly illustrated WWII history examines the bitter aerial combat of the Eastern Front through rare wartime photographs and informative text. Though the air war was a major aspect of the Eastern Front conflict, it has long been neglected by historians. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history offers a vividly detailed introduction to the subject. With more than 150 archival images most of which have never been published before this volume examines Stalin's Red Air Force and Hitlers Luftwaffe, their equipment, and the role they played in supporting the war on the ground. Just before Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, Stalin had decimated the leadership of the Red Air Force in a series of purges. Thousands of Russian fighter aircraft were swiftly destroyed in the German Blitzkrieg. But a remarkable recovery followed as the Red Air Force turned the tide against the ravages of the Luftwaffe to wrestle back air superiority by 1944.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4738-6164-0 / 1473861640
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4738-6164-0 / 9781473861640