NOW AVAILABLE!!!!

NEW BOOK ON THE AIR WAR OVER THE EASTERN FRONT

VOLUME I IS NOW AVAILABLE.


The aviation historians Christer Bergström and Andrey Mikhailov are currently working on a six-volume series of books that will provide the most thorough overall account so far of the air war between the Luftwaffe and the Soviet Air Forces: "Black Cross/Red Star: Air War Over the Eastern Front 1941-1945." This series will provide a totally new dimension to the little-known history of the fierce air combat between the Luftwaffe and the Soviet Air Forces during World War II.

"Black Cross/Red Star: Air War Over the Eastern Front" pictures the dramatic air war on the Eastern Front from both the German and the Soviet points of view. By putting eyewitness accounts from the airmen of both sides together, and by comparing loss and victory lists from the Luftwaffe and the Soviet Air Forces, Bergström and Mikhailov arrive at many astonishing conclusions. "Black Cross/Red Star: Air War Over the Eastern Front," Vol I (Operation Barbarossa, 1941) has been published by Pacifica Military History™.

ISBN 0-935553-48-7

320 pages with 6 full-color maps, appendix, glossary, index,

and 185 photographs, many published for the first time.

Retail Price: US$39.95


CONTENTS  

Contents of "Black Cross/Red Star: Air War Over the Eastern Front," Vol I (Operation Barbarossa, 1941)


Maps - IX (six full-page color maps)

Foreword by General-Leytenant Arkadiy F. Kovachevich, VVS --- XV

Foreword by Major a.D. Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Luftwaffe --- XVII

Glossary and Guide to Abbreviations --- XIX

Prologue - Air War on the Eastern Front --- 1

PART I - The Enemies --- 3

Chapter 1 - The Doctrine --- 5

Chapter 2 - The Training Standards --- 9

Chapter 3 - The Material and the Methods --- 11

PART II - Background of a Disaster ---- 17

Chapter 4 - Downfall of the Soviet Air Force --- 19

Chapter 5 - The Rise of the Luftwaffe --- 23

Chapter 6 - Countdown --- 25

PART III - Sunday, June 22, 1941 --- 27

Chapter 7 - "That Day I Will Remember to the End of My Life" ---29

Chapter 8 - The Plague of the Soviet Bombers --- 43

PART IV - The Swan Song of the Red Bombers --- 49

Chapter 9 - Luftflotten 1 and 2 in the Struggle for Air Supremacy --- 51

Chapter 10 - Difficulties in the South

PART V - Lightning War --- 73

Chapter 11 - Air War Over the Baltics --- 75

Chapter 12 - Fighter Combat Over Smolensk --- 83

Chapter 13 - Endurance in the South --- 93

Chapter 14 - Encirclement in the Ukraine --- 101

PART VI - Recovery of the Red Air Force --- 109

Chapter 15 - Reinforcing the VVS --- 111

Chapter 16 - Deadlock Before Moscow --- 113

Chapter 17 - Toward the Gates of Leningrad --- 125

PART VII - "The Greatest Battle of All Time" --- 145

Chapter 18 - Annihilation at Kiev --- 147

Chapter 19 - Air War Over Odessa --- 155

PART VIII - The Arctic Front --- 163

Chapter 20 - Aces Over the Tundra --- 165

Chapter 21 - Assistance from the West --- 173

PART IX - Fall of 1941: Stiffening Resistance --- 181

Chapter 22 - Air Combat Over Leningrad --- 183

Chapter 23 - Typhoon Against Moscow --- 191

Chapter 24 - The Race for the Soviet Industrial Plants --- 201

Chapter 25 - The Role of the VVS during the Battles of the Crimea and

Rostov --- 211

PART X - Barbarossa's Last Gasp --- 219

Chapter 26 - Luftwaffenkommando Tichwin --- 221

Chapter 27 - Fighter Assault on the Crimea --- 225

Chapter 28 - With the Last Forces toward Rostov --- 229

Chapter 29 - Mud and Shturmoviks --- 231

PART XI - The Death of Barbarossa --- 239

Chapter 30 - General Winter --- 241

Chapter 31 - The Soviet Counteroffensives --- 245

Conclusions --- 251

Appendix I - The Structure of the Luftwaffe --- 257

Appendix II - The Structure of the Soviet Air Forces --- 260

Appendix III - Luftwaffe Order of Battle June 21, 1941 --- 263

Appendix IV - VVS Order of Battle June 21, 1941 --- 267

Appendix V - Rank Equivalency Table --- 271

Appendix VI - The Highest Military Awards --- 273

Notes --- 275

Sources --- 283

© Christer Bergström & Andrey Mikhailov 2000

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