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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™.
and 185 photographs, many published for the first time.
Retail Price: US$39.95
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
