Air Battles Over the Baltic 1941
The Air War on 22 June 1941 - the Battle for Stalin's Baltic Region
$148.92
- Hardcover
448 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2018
Summary
This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941.
The author describes in detail the composition and the capabilities of the Soviet aviation alignment in the Baltic Special Military District, as well as the training of flight crews and technical personnel; the number and quality of the materiel; the condition of the logistics structures, as well as the operational and tacti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911512561 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1911512560 |
| Author: | Mikhail Timin, Kevin Bridge |
| Publisher: | Helion & Company |
| Imprint: | Helion & Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.28kg |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 245mm |
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Critics Review
This and the future volume will serve as a valuable reference for any enthusiast with a serious interest in the lead up and opening rounds of what would become a clash of giants.
All in all, an outstanding addition to your WW II air war library. * Flightpath Magazine *
This and the future volume will serve as a valuable reference for any enthusiast withh a serious interest in the lead up and opening rounds of what would become a clash of giants. * Classic Wings *
A beautiful presented and important analysis of a challenging subject. * Flightpath Magazine *
… these 400 pages abundantly illustrated – photographs, profiles and maps – are also an excellent state of the forces and weaknesses – especially… – of Soviet aviation on the eve of Barbarossa. * VaeVictis 01/03/2019 *
’…outstanding addition to any W.W.II air war library.’ * Flight Line Book Review *
Mikhail Timin
Mikhail Valeryevich Timin was born on 30 July 1979 in Ulyanovsk, USSR. He graduated from Ulyanovsk State Technical University and currently lives in Moscow, Russia. Married with two sons, he is a researcher specialising in the history of the Air Forces of the USSR and is the author of approximately 50 publications in journals such as Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika, AviaMaster, AviaPark and Flypast, as well as on the internet portal warspot.ru. For more than 10 years, he has been engaged in researching documents on Soviet military aviation in the Russian Archives: The Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (in Podolsk), The Russian State Military Archive (Moscow) and The Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (in Krasnogorsk).
Kevin Bridge BA MCIL is a Russian to English Translator / Editor specialising in Aviation & Aeronautics and Russian Translation for the Publishing Sector. He has been working as a Translator since October 2007 and to date he has translated 12 books, which have either been serialised in an historical aviation journal, or have been published by leading military history and academic publishers. He has also acted as an Interpreter for Russian and Western aircrew at aviation events such as the Farnborough Airshow. He gained a BA Degree in Russian & Soviet Studies from the University of Portsmouth in 1998 and has travelled extensively in Russia. He also worked for a period of five years as a Russian Linguist before embarking on translation. He joined the Chartered Institute of Linguists in March 2012 as a full Member (MCIL) and was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Russian Aviation Research Trust (RART), in view of his translation work and Russian language skills in September 2013.
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