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Thanks Matti. Strangely Robert this was the only "good" sentence about the planning of the Soviet command on this type of operation in the book but didn't elaborate on the results and was only in the "Introduction" section. The rest was critical of the mass raid plans against airfields made by the Soviet command. I thought that the "25th June" was probably another of Mark Solonin's political ant-Soviet books instead of a history on the subject. I have found that this book "Новая хронология Катастрофы 1941" does have some pretty good material on the early days of the German air offensive on the South-Western and South Fronts.