Soviet Aircraft and Aviation 1917-1941 [Hardcover]

Lennart Andersson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1995

Using many Russian sources only recently available, this book traces the development of Soviet civil and military aviation in detail. Research in Soviet archives has unearthed production figures and lists of aircraft not previously available.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr (February 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557507708
• ISBN-13: 978-1557507709
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,137,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Would have worked better with a smaller page size, February 4, 2010

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This review is from: Soviet Aircraft and Aviation 1917-1941 (Hardcover)

While as with most Putnam books, there is a wealth of information that has never before been published in the West, the larger page format that Putnam adopted for its later books simply does not work well here.

Putnam's earlier books, with their 8-3/4 x 5-3/4 page size, were much better at presenting the data in "encyclopedic" books like this one; the larger page size should be reserved for books with a running narrative. At the very least, the three-column-per-page format should be replaced with one or two columns.

I hope that, if someone puts the Putnams back in print, that they re-format this book, and similar Putnams with encyclopedic listings of aircraft, in the 8-3/4 x 5-3/4 page size, which would make this book much more pleasant to use!