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Journal of Cold War Studies

Volume 6, Number 3, Summer 2004
E-ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972

Zaloga, Steve.
Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea (review)
Journal of Cold War Studies - Volume 6, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 164-166

The MIT Press

Steve Zaloga - Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea
(review) - Journal of Cold War Studies 6:3 Journal of Cold War Studies 6.3 (2004) 164-166
Xiaoming Zhang, Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in
Korea. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 300 pp. Until recently, historical
accounts of the Korean air war in 1950-1953 have been one-sided, covering it only from the
perspective of the U.S. and United Nations forces. Soviet participation in the air war was
widely suspected even at the time, but until the 1990s the role of Soviet pilots was a state
secret and was never officially acknowledged by Soviet leaders. Following the end of the Cold
War, Russian veterans began to recall their experiences in Korea, and a number of Russian-
language accounts appeared as newspaper and magazine...

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