In the books 400+ pages there were some real revelations for me, along with a number of major eye openers. When you compare the time lines of some of the Soviet projects covered in the book to some of the Western projects, the reasons for a few things become clearer.
The pictures of the full delta winged MiG 21 were absolutely fascinating, but there are so many photographs of one of types that it is hard to say what was the most interesting.
This is an other of these definative books, with over 700 photographs – many in colour and around 70 illustrations along with many technical specifications. The authors have done huge amounts of research, they have obviously been granted the highest levels of access to the information from a number of sources.
As someone with a lifelong interest in aviation, I was astonished at the information contained in this book. As a reference book it is brilliant, from a modeling point of view – probably only those interested in scratch building would be interested. All in all if you have any interest in Soviet Aircraft, this book is well worth the money.