The author of the book flew 997 confirmed night missions in an open cockpit of a Po-2. Flying at low altitudes, often too low to safely parachute out of a damaged aircraft, the pilots of these machines often flew nighttime low level bombing raids or reconaissance missions.

The book contains information about all main operations - both air and sea conducted by the Soviets and the Germans on a strategic level.

General Vlasov led a force of former Soviet soldiers in battle against the Red Army during Worl War Two. After the war, the general and his forces were transferred by the western allies to the USSR, where they faced execution.

A look at tank warfare during WWII.

The author was a fighter pilot for the Soviet Union during World War II. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on two separate occasions (24 May, 1943 and July 1, 1944). He scored 61 confirmed personal victories and 4 additional shared victories in air combat. As such, he is the third highest scoring Soviet pilot in World War II. He began the war in the air over Moldova in 1941.

Air War over the Baltic - anti-shipping operations.

Operation Typhoon in 1941, winter fight for Moscow. All facts, names, titles and details.

The Toropets–Kholm Offensive was a military operation conducted south of Lake Ilmen by the Red Army during World War II, from 9 January-6 February 1942. The operation contributed to the formation of the Kholm Pocket, the encirclement of the Wehrmacht's II. Army Corps in the Demiansk Pocket, and the destruction of the German Wehrmacht's 189th Infantry Regiment near Andreapol.

The book is dedicated to examining the controversial views of Viktor Suvorov on the Soviet military.