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Originally Posted by Jens
Hi there,
i am currently reading.
My impression: the book is more than worthy for its price.
It's quite detailed in describing air combats and their results.
Especially the informations about air actions of VVS and ARR are interesting (and quite new i think).
Also the photos are well in quantity and quality.
Some critics i have to add too;
- the book has a very little focus at ground operations, which are very important (IMHO) to unterstand air operations at the eastern front. Both were very close connected.
- why there is not a word about the claims of Pokryshkin in the first days? (see also BC/RS Vol.1), or i didn't see it?
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Thanks, Jens, for your kind opinion.
As for the critics, details on ground operations were not largely included in the text simply because of lack of printing space (although, there is a fairly detailed introduction, which explains the military and political situation back then, and how did this situation end up as it did). The page number was originally set by the Publisher to 96, which the Publisher did not want to change. Even so, the Editor managed somehow to squeeze in 93,000 words, instead of the recommended 50,000 (hence the small font size).
As for Pokryshkin's claims from the first days of war, based on his memoirs, if they are not included in our book, it simply means that no trace of these claims could be found in the archives.
We did mention the name of
St. Lt. Pokryshkin, though...