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I'm looking for a book to give me an idea of what it was like being a fighter pilot during the great patriotic war. I'm not usualy the type to read books but I think i would enjoy this kind of book. Any suggestions?

I think it suffers in translation, but another thing I found quite odd initially, was the way it seemed to read like a "Famous Five" book,as written by Enid Stalin, or something. I'd never read anything from the Soviet point of view, so it was at first strange to read someone who was so strongly into the Communist system. That's just my own bias coming in of course. I've read a number of German pilot accounts and found them more readily accessible, partly through familiarity,partly due to downplaying of Nazism in them. Once I got used to the new frame,it was actually an interesting exercise in reading.

Just checked the reviews of the fighter pilot book in the first reply and they match my thoughts about Over Fields of Fire very closely. The perspective and then focus are very different from what a Western reader expects.

No wonder,all of soviet memoire literature has been written after war in the mist of censorship and shade of Stalin,Chruscev,Breznev....If you wanted to publish,it was mandatory to include parts celebrating comunist party,comrade Stalin and all that crap.You have to read ''inbetween lines'' in such literature.

I strongly reccomend memoire book of _Pokryshkin "Poznat' sebya v boyu" but I have no idea if it was translated to english and how to get it.I have 2 books (2 different editions) at my place,translated in my mother tongue Slovak.And I read thru this books again and again.Because Sasha was kind of rebel and an exception in soviet system.Never glorified comunist party in his book and as such it is IMO very readable also for you ''western'' guys

I own a TimeLife book about the history of the soviet air force covering mainly WWII. Its from a whole series of aviation related books from TimeLife released in 1980 in germany. I guess there must be an english version released prior to the german.

I don't recall if I actually found the publisher's details I was looking for in that website, but a page in the book says "Publication made possible by the 'I Remember' website (www.iremember.ru) and its director, Mr Artem Drabkin"... small world, isn't it?

Air Combat Over the Eastern Front & Korea is a first hand account by Sergei Kramarenko and is a very interesting read. He flew LaGG 3s (fortunately not in combat as his unit was re-equipped with La 5s before he had that misfortune). The first two thirds of the book deal with his WWII experiences.

I'm currently reading "Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War against Germany" by Dmitriy Loza, translated and edited by James F. Gebhardt (available e.g. from: =oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). It originated from a collaboration between the (Russian) author and the (American) translator/editor in the late 90's, and does not have the ideological issues that were observed in some older Soviet publications.

The Book is based on interviews with surviving pilots of some of the Guards wings that flew Airacobras, including Pokryshnin; the content from the interviews, together with results from archive research, has been compiled into narratives. It focuses on accounts of individual missions, starting with missions flown during the Kuban operation, and then following the wing through the battlefields of Ukraine into southeast Germany. It provides lots of details of how those missions were planned and carried out, including goals, formations, altitudes, spacing, etc. A few chapters describe the logistical aspects, e.g. how wings were relocated to new airfields, as well as how an airfield worked.

There was a book written by a Russian Army's politruk/commissar when he was besieged in Winter War on Raate road. I think the translation would be "Icy Hell". He had to hide the memoirs and they were not published until very recently. Gives quite a different view on things than the "official" books filled with propagandanistic drivel. Have to dig up the book and author. Not related to flying but WW2 nevertheless and the rare Russian side of books.

book are STRICTLY on english language, and it's very very sad. but even on english book still not out, author said me that MAYBE book will be released somewhere in end of year (or something like this, well, not in near future), because he had personal problems. but, really, any man who want to know more about BOS, must buy this book, because, if i not mistaken, it's last detailed version of history of BOS, from russian archives...

It looks like this book is based on Sasha Pokryshkin memoires quite a bit (minus compulsory postwar commies balast).Some chapters even have simmilar if not same names as in his original book.I have to get it

CASA (the Civil Aviation Safety Authority) has a number of resources that might be of interest, in fact a lot of their safety publications and videos are as good as (or better than) the FAA equivalents. As best I can tell they don't have anything equivalent to the textbook-level Airplane Flying Handbook or Instrument Procedures Handbook from the FAA though.

You can find references to the FAA handbooks in some of CASA's CAAPs - for example, the Night VFR Rating information references the Airplane Flying Handbook's section on Night Operations) - so clearly they consider at least some of the information broadly transferrable.

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