From Barbarossa to Odessa: The Luftwaffe and Axis Allies Strike South-East June - October 1941-Volume 2 (Luftwaffe Strikes Part 2) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jean-louis Roba, Dmitiry Karlenko
Creator: Denes Bernad
Publisher: Classic Publications
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 1857802802
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9781857802801
ASIN: 1857802802
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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From Barbarossa to Odessa: Volume 2 is the second of two volumes on the air combat which took place on the southern flank of the Eastern Front following Operation Barbarossa. The period covered in this book saw the occupation of Bessarabia and southwest Ukraine and concluded when the Germans captured the area's regional capital, Odessa, on October 16, 1941. It was one of the most bitter and intensive air campaigns fought in the east, because local Soviet commanders had dispersed most of their assets in time, thus preventing their destruction on the ground. This gave them the ability to respond effectively to the combined Axis onslaught. Accordingly, the Red Air Force was able to achieve some of its greatest successes of 1941 in this little-studied campaign.
This book covers the often overlooked involvement of aircraft from Axis states other than Germany, such as the Romanians, who claimed a total of over 600 air victories, the Hungarians, the Slovaks, and even the Bulgarians. This makes the subject varied and of great interest, particularly because of the large variety of aircraft types employed by both sides, all of which are fully documented. Aided by a large number of previously unpublished photographs, the book tells the story of the campaign from both sides and provides detailed eyewitness accounts from individual pilots who were involved in the fighting. Besides day-to-day operations, appendices will contain comprehensive victory and loss lists.
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ground breaking history May 29, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although not large in the number of pages, this book is ground-breaking in what it covers, and it covers it well. When the former Soviet archives started opening in the 1990s and into the 21st century, it finally became possible, albeit tedious, to look into details previously classified by the USSR on their WWII operational records. The author, with collaborators, has taken advantage of this and written a very readable, well-referenced narrative and dairy of the first 6 months of the 1941 airwar in the southern USSR as a part of the German Operation Barbarossa. There are good first person stories, claims and losses for the details and overall good history. This is to be followed by other volumes and we can only look forward to them.
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