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  • MediaDB / «1941. War in the air. Bitter lessons" Dmitry Khazanov: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2006 / Publisher's abstract: A new book by a famous researcher is dedicated to one of the most controversial and mysterious pages of Russian history - the actions of Soviet aviation in the first months of the Great Patriotic War. What happened at the border airfields on June 22, 1941 - in detail, hourly and minute by hour? Was our air force taken by surprise? What losses did you suffer? Why was the Luftwaffe able to gain air supremacy so quickly? What are the main reasons for the failures of the Red Army Air Force at the first stage of the war? Did the pre-war aviation doctrine of the USSR meet the requirements of the moment? How effective were the strikes of Soviet bomber aircraft against Germany's allies - Romania and Finland - in the summer of 1941? Why did the Luftwaffe, having air supremacy, fail to destroy the most important military-industrial facilities in Moscow and cause panic among the population? This book is not a retelling of long-known sources and not cheap sensations of amateur “historians”, often, as they say, “pulled out of thin air.” This research is based on a huge array of factual materials, Soviet and German archival documents, combat logs and hard-to-find memories of direct participants in the events.