How quickly a publication like this becomes history! This summary and analysis of East European air forces dates from late 1990 or early 1991, when the Eastern Bloc countries were just opening up; so we have a summary of how the Cold War appeared to the East in the brief window before It All Changed. Of course, the analysis is fairly simplistic, and some of it is inaccurate in the light of what we have learned since. the maps are laughably inaccurate. And there are countries in here that are, indeed, now history - Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia. Other countries are not in here that we are now familiar with - the Baltic states, Belarus, Moldova and the Ukraine, let alone all the former Yugoslav republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - are not included as they didn't then exist. In short, a publication from another age.

Sub-editing and proof-reading are almost non-existent.