1941-1945: VVS Air Operations during the Great Patriotic War

[edwest2]

Available now.


https://www.amazon.com/1941-1945-Ope.../dp/B0DJF4H71S


Usual disclaimer,
Ed

[Edward]

Quite an undertaking

1941-1945: VVS Air Operations during the Great Patriotic War
(Independently published - October 2, 2024)
by Juan Fraile-Nuez
512 pages - paperback
8"x10"
English
$30 US [Amz]

Bill Stone at Stone & Stone Second World War Books
"Juan Fraile-Nuez—in preparation for his upcoming series of month-by-month histories of the air war on the Russian Front—has produced a single volume covering the Soviet Air Force in the Russo-German War. His self-published VVS Air Operations during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 is now available."

Juan Fraile-Nuez
"Covers VVS air operations during the entire Great Patriotic War in a generalised manner, divided by periods and operations, and tries to immerse the reader in the atmosphere that existed in the USSR at that time, to make the reader know that politics played a decisive role in the life of each of the inhabitants of the USSR and to appreciate how military operations were carried out, to see that they were taken in accordance with the political interests of the USSR at that time.

The main battles are listed in a generalised manner from the Soviet point of view, although examples of courage are given which served as inspiration and about which much was written at that time to raise the morale of the soldiers. An attempt has been made to limit each operation to 20-25 pages, so as not to make the book excessively long and dense.

Subsequent books focus on one month of fighting, divided into sections, one for each day of the current month. [so c. 48 volumes?]

Each day is divided into the following subsections:
- Air operations
- AOB
- Combat reports and losses of the VVS, VVS VMF and the Luftwaffe,
- Tactics
- Developments of the aircraft industry in the rearguard
- Evacuation and deployment of Soviet factories
- Comparative tables
- Enemy intelligence reports

The data has been cross-checked with the archives of the Russian Federation and with Luftwaffe loss reports."

[Mark Proulx]

Looks interesting. I would like to read a review of this.

Mark Proulx

[Edward]

Mark Proulx
For now there is a preview / "read sample" option at Amz.

Alas, this preview does not cover the chapters covering June 1941-May1945.