Author and illustrations: Viktor Povinsky
Published: Mushroom Model Publications
ISBN 978-8363678371
Hardback 208 pages, illustrated throughout, 116 colour pages, black and white photos plus colour illustrations, English text throughout.
Price at time of review £35.00 GBP from all good bookshops, or direct from the publishers MMP You can order on-line at: www.mmpbooks.biz
Review by Geoff Coughlin (December 2014)
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An illustrated technical history of the most famous Soviet warplane of World War Two, the IL-2 Shturmovik. Built in larger numbers than any other aircraft, the Il-2 ground-attack and close-support aircraft was perhaps the most important aircraft on the Eastern Front in WW2. The different versions of the plane, from the prototypes to the final aircraft of 1945 are described and illustrated; all the changes in specification, equipment and performance are recorded. Drawings and data from the original technical manuals, full dimensional details and photographs of surviving examples preserved in aviation museums illustrate all aspects of the airframe, inside and out.
Wartime photographs and many pages of color illustrations complete the book’s comprehensive coverage. About 100 color profiles.
Highly recommended
Geoff C.