Opis wydawcy książki: Pierwsza polska monografia działań lotnictwa sowieckiego i polskiego podczas wojny polsko-sowieckiej, rozpoczętej agresją ZSRR na Polskę 17 IX 1939 roku. Autor prezentuje walki powietrzne, zestrzelenia samolotów sowieckich i polskich nad Kresami, ataki samolotów sowieckich na oddziały Wojska Polskiego i Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza, omawia ewakuacje samolotów polskich na Węgry, do Rumunii i na Łotwę. Tekst wzbogacają liczne niepublikowane dotąd zdjęcia archiwalne oraz barwne sylwetki samolotów polskich i sowieckich.
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Soviet Aviation over East Part of Poland in September, October 1939. A new book in Poland concerning Soviet-Polish air war in 1939 in September 2008.
The book has 185 pages A-5 size. There are 17 color drawings of Soviet and Polish planes, plus about 46 black and white photos and 1 map.
For many English readers it is not good information - the whole book is done only in Polish. There are no any English text, summary etc. I do not suppose that this material could be done in English in the future (it is quite small market for such “strange” stories).
This is the first book focused about this quite less know small air war on the beginning of WW II. The Soviet during invasion on Poland (17 IX 1939) had also used quite large air forces (about 3.300 combat, land military planes). During this very short war there were used in fact less aviation forces - about 1.000 combat planes. There were in fact not so many air combats between Soviet invasion air forces and Polish Lotnictwo Wojskowe. During this small air war Soviet had used additional (beside to VVS RKKA) aviation forces like: a few NKVD air units, plus tens of civil planes taken from GVF - Aeroflot. The last, large, air force, which was also put against Poland was maritime aviation (Baltic and Black See aviation units). The Soviet planes had done the last combat flights about 7 October 1939. Soviet air units had done the last combat flights later, then Luftwaffe against Poles in 1939.
