Silver Birds Over the Estuary - The Mig-21 in Yugoslav and Serbian Air Force Service, 1962-2019

MiG-21s formed the backbone of the Yugoslav Air Force and Air Defense Force and later the Serbian Air Force. This book is based upon the author's extensive research in archives and interviews with veterans that flew this type. Most of the photos in this volume have never been published before.

About the author

Bojan Dimitrijevic is working as a historian and is Deputy Director of the Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade, Serbia. Educated at the Universities of Belgrade and Novi Sad, CEU Budapest and the University of Bradford, he has also worked as the custodian of the Yugoslav Aviation Museum. During the period 2003-2009, Dimitrijevic served as advisor to the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the President of Serbia, and as Assistant to the Minister of Defense. He has published over 50 different books and more than 100 scientific articles in Serbia and abroad. His professional interest is in the military history of the former Yugoslavia and Balkans in World War Two, the Cold War as well as wars in the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Bojan Dimitrijevic, Milan Micevski
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781913118693
• ISBN: 978-1-913118-69-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 295 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 324 g
• Illustrations: 150 b/w & 15 colour photos, 6 colour profiles, 1 colour map, 11 tables
• Series: Europe@War
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration