Buy this book on-line MARIINSKIY,EVGENIY**: : RED STAR AIRACOBRA:MEMOIRS OF A SOVIET FIGHTER ACE 1941-45.**UK.SOLIHULL.HELION & CO LTD.,2006. ISBN 1874622787.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Vol II of Soviet Memories of War series - ed by Artem Drabkin;translated by Vladimir Krupnik.]FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - no publisher price stated - as new.Crisp, bright, clean, glossy laminated b/w photographic montage illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears nor bumping present.Top+fore-edges crisp,bright,clean,pristine;
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navy blue paper-covered bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,unmarked plain white eps.8vo,iii-xiii+15-182pp [paginated] includes title-page, contents list/table, preface, 20 chapters and an epilogue, 20pp contemporary b/w photographs to rear( pp163-182), publisher b/w photographic illustrated advert for other and forthcoming titles in the series to rear.
Evgeniy Mariinskiy,a Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union,shot down 20 enemy planes in aerial combat over the Eastern Front between 1943 and 1945.
He frequently engaged enemy fighters and bombers, shot
down many but was himself shot down several times.
This is his extraordinary story.
His vivid inside view of the ruthless war in the air on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of fighting and tactics of the Red Army Air Force.In his own words, and with a remarkable clarity of recall,Evgeniy Mariinskiy describes what combat was like in the air,face to face with a skilled, deadly and increasingly desperate enemy.The reader can
follow his career from an unskilled novice who has just arrived at his regiment through to him becoming an ace, and Hero of the Soviet Union,under the leadership of experienced commanders.The terrifying moments of action,engagements with enemy fighters, forced landings,nervous strain before attacks,loss of comrades and everyday life of pilots - all these apects of a Soviet fighter pilot's experience during the Great Patriotic War are brought dramatically to life in his memoirs.In his memoirs Mariinskiy describes tactics which enabled him to have an upper hand in dog-fights against experienced German pilots. The grand strategy of the campaigns across the Eastern Front is less important than the sequence of engagements that were the first-hand experience of the
author.It is this close-up view of combat that makes Evgeniy Mariinskiy's reminiscences of such value.
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