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Na Mirno Spiashchikh Aerodromakh… 22 Iiunia 1941 Goda
[ On peacefully dreaming aerodromes... 22 June, 1941]
Moscow: Eksmo, 2008 576 p. [8 ill.] Serie: Velikaia Otechestvennaia: Neizvestnaia voina Hardcover. 12.5 x 20 cm ISBN: 9785699156955 Language: Russian
This book continues "22d June, or When the Great Patriotic War Began" which challenged common ideas about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, and the cause of the catastrophic losses of the first months of the war. The author disputes Suvorov`s theory, which states that the soviet army was prepared for offensive, but not for defensive action. What in fact happened at the air fields near the western border? Was the soviet air force really destroyed at the beginning of the war? Could planes made from plywood confront the Luftwaffe? Solonin present his version of the beginning of the war with new data and a new interpretation. It took the author fifteen years to collect and analyze data about the beginning of the war. Bibliography.
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