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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzz
Review: A difficult read due to turgid, repetitive Soviet-style prose. I would reccomend this book only to a historian or a very serious aviation buff. I count myself as one of the latter, and I'm having trouble working up the interest to get more than halfway through this one.
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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzz
Review: A difficult read due to turgid, repetitive Soviet-style prose. I would reccomend this book only to a historian or a very serious aviation buff. I count myself as one of the latter, and I'm having trouble working up the interest to get more than halfway through this one.
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Summary: Great read for an IL2FB Sim Pilot - Revolutionary Tactics
Review: As an enthusiastic sim pilot, I found this book absolutely facinating! American pilots were destroyed in the P-39, while the Soviet pilots defeated German 109's and 190's in the Cobra. This book explains how it was done.Alexandr Pokryskin was the Soviet hero that developed new tactics that use the Cobra's awsome firepower to rule the Eastern Front. This writing dispells the myth that the Cobra was used as an air-to-ground attack aircraft. In fact, it was an air superiority fighter on the Eastern Front. I was able to employ tactics explained in this fabulous book in the flight sims IL2 & IL2FB to great effect. Also, a hither to unknown (to me at least) part of WWII came alive for the first time. I knew very little about the Eastern Front. I highly recommend this book to any aviation enthusiast.
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Summary: Great read for an IL2FB Sim Pilot - Revolutionary Tactics
Review: As an enthusiastic sim pilot, I found this book absolutely facinating! American pilots were destroyed in the P-39, while the Soviet pilots defeated German 109's and 190's in the Cobra. This book explains how it was done. Alexandr Pokryskin was the Soviet hero that developed new tactics that use the Cobra's awsome firepower to rule the Eastern Front. This writing dispells the myth that the Cobra was used as an air-to-ground attack aircraft. In fact, it was an air superiority fighter on the Eastern Front. I was able to employ tactics explained in this fabulous book in the flight sims IL2 & IL2FB to great effect. Also, a hither to unknown (to me at least) part of WWII came alive for the first time. I knew very little about the Eastern Front. I highly recommend this book to any aviation enthusiast.
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Summary: As good as it gets, so far
Review: This book gets into the day-to-day operational life of a Russian
P-39 squadron. It's an excellent reference of life outside of the cockpit, and yet still let's you know that the P-39 was more than competitive against Me-109's & FW-190's. The point isn't stated exactly, but the reason they WERE competitive is that combat on the Russian Front was generally below 15,000 ft, and never above 20,000 ft. Remember, neither side was using high-altitude, long-range stategic bombers, it was all low-level tactical aviation. Still, the book doesn't get into the airplane specifics I would like, i.e. . . how specifically it was better than the 109/190, or even how it compared to their own MiG's, Yak's, LaGG's. The point is, it's a great book on the operational use of the P-39, and is worth reading.
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