Chapter 1: Britain’s Most Magnanimous Deed/Chapter 2 Curtiss Hawks/The First American Fighters/Chapter 3 The Airacobra/The Most Famous Lend-lease Fighter/Chapter 4 The Spitfire/Chapter 5: Little-known Lend-lease Fighters/Appendices
George Mellinger is a specialist in Russian aviation history living in the United States. He is an associate of the Russian Aviation Research Group-Air Britain, and a member of the Twin Cities Aero Historians. He is working on major studies of Soviet Air Force organisation and of Soviet aces. This is his fourth volume for Osprey. He lives in South Dakota, USA. Artist Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating art work on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000, and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes.
"The machines of war and pilot heroism are well explained and depicted here." --Alex Ness, popthought.com "Osprey's Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces is a fascinating read, it will entertain and inform a variety of connoisseurs of WW2 aviation and the Eastern Front." --Fred Boucher, Aeroscale "...the fascinating story [of the fighter pilots] is told in this informative volume." --George Hulett, Warbirds International
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