Publisher's Synopsis
Research about the Soviet aircraft industry during the period of the Great Patriotic War that merges, in the form of chronology, historical facts, including written communications, the situation at the front, the needs of the Soviet Air Force and the hardships of its industry nation to support the war effort.
The work focuses on the Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik and its developments throughout the war, and relies on other aircraft designers in order to give an overall image.
This research work has required three generations to complete. The first generation wrote the story; the second generation collected and kept such documents and the third generation searched for, compiled, verified with Russian and foreign sources and put into this research work, translating it from Russian to Spanish, and from Spanish to English.
To carry out this extensive and precise work, more than 25,000 official documents from the archives of the Russian Federation and Germany have been translated, hoping that the vast amount of data being published for the first time in the West can improve to understand the Soviet aircraft industry during this period of time.
