Air battles over the Baltic 1941. Volume 1, Soviet military aviation on the eve of the Great Patriottic War /
"The study explores both the rapid expansion of Soviet air power and its systemic weaknesses. It examines the deployment of air units into Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia following their incorporation into the Soviet sphere, while analysing the challenges posed by inadequate infrastructure, logi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Warwick :
Helion & Company,
2026.
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| Series: | Europe@war ;
no. 63 |
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| Summary: | "The study explores both the rapid expansion of Soviet air power and its systemic weaknesses. It examines the deployment of air units into Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia following their incorporation into the Soviet sphere, while analysing the challenges posed by inadequate infrastructure, logistical shortfalls, and the hurried training of thousands of newly graduated pilots. The book provides an unvarnished assessment of the sweeping organisational reforms of 1938-1940, revealing a force caught between ambition and operational reality. These developments are placed within a wider strategic and political context, including the lessons of the Winter War with Finland and the looming threat of German attack." |
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| Physical Description: | 70 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliography. |
| ISBN: | 9781804518762 180451876X |