Commander Valentina Smirnova

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Commander Valentina Smirnova In an era when women had no voice or vote and were frowned upon outside of the kitchen, Valentina Smirnova flew her Polikarpov I-16 fighter plane fighting against Franco's Fascists, Mussolini's Fascists and Hitler's Nazis in the skies of war-torn Spain. Russian snipers. The Nazis were losing their minds over those women. Lyuba Vinogradova At the end of this book an explanatory annex has been added, about basic combat flight maneuvers used at that time. The era of propellers, when piston engine aircraft - Hispano-Suiza, Daimler-Benz or Rolls-Royce Merlin - dominated the skies. Although this is a historical novel documented on real events, both the plot and characters are fictitious. Some authentic details have been altered according to the needs of the fiction.