... this is the most accurate book yet on Russia's air involvement in Syria. * Air Forces Monthly 21/02/2019 * Sharp and interesting "in action" photos and beautiful profiles (21, including the rare AWCS Tu-214R and the T-50 super fighter) of the main planes and helos involved in the operations, by Tom Cooper too, enrich this "must have" book. The conflicts are made well accessible with these books and we do need that in these times with heaps of fake news and other forms of falsification of history! * Aviationbookreviews.com 09/01/2019 * Tom Cooper's engaging volume sets out to examine the intentions and capabilities of Russia's military forces. More importantly, the author takes the time to explain the somewhat complicated geopolitical situation, before recounting the arrival of Russian airpower in Syria. * Airfix Model World 07/02/2019 * ... books like this one are truly precious for extra knowledge. * DetailScaleView 05/07/2019 *
Tom Cooper is an Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian. Following a career in the worldwide transportation business - during which he established a network of contacts in the Middle East and Africa - he moved into narrow-focus analysis and writing on small, little-known air forces and conflicts, about which he has collected extensive archives. This has resulted in specialisation in such Middle Eastern air forces as of those of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, plus various African and Asian air forces. As well as authoring and co-authoring more than 50 books - including an in-depth analysis of major Arab air forces at wars with Israel in period 1955-1973 - and over 1000 articles, Cooper is editor of Helion's five @War series.