JAPAN against RUSSIA in the Sky of Nomonhan 1939

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By Dimitar Nedialkov. Published in October 2005.Text in English. The luxury hard back book has 128 pages, size 24 x 17,5 cm, 9 graphic illustrations, 4 maps with operative situation, 12 camouflage profiles, 57 photos from the archives of Ministry of Defence. Cover design by Marii Chernev This book is an emotional tale of one not so well-known military Air clash begun in May 14th and finished on September 15th 1939 (15 days after Germany invaded Poland). Isn't this local conflict between the two empires the actual beginning of WW II? The crash of the Japanese made them move their striking power East against USA and UK in the Pacific Strategic Area. This changed the history for decades ahead. The conflict characteristic feature is the importance of the Air Power in the achieving of the decisive final results. The level of massiveness and intensity of this air battle reaches levels without analogue even in WW II. The four months conflict, which took part in a theatre of operations with dimensions of some 80km front line and 30-40km depth became a battle field for more than 900 Soviet and 450 Japanese aircraft. The air conflict that continued plains took part. Col. prof. Dimitar Nedialkov Ph. D. is still an active pilot with more than 1500h flying hours on L-29, MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21 and Su-22. As a scientist he has 57 publications, read more

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