Commander Valentina Smirnova

<p>Commander Valentina Smirnova</p><p>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.</p><p>Russian snipers. The Nazis were losing their minds over those women.</p><p>Lyuba Vinogradova</p><p>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.</p>