Red Assault

An aviation historian explores Russian airborne assault innovations in the decade before WWII using paratrooper memoirs and archival research.   Through the 1930s, the USSR was pioneering new developments and technologies in airborne assault. The Red Army was conducting mass airborne assault exercises—dropping paratroopers, tanks, and guns from the skies—when no other nation on Earth even had airborne assault troops.   In Red Assault , the Russian aviation historian Vladimir Kotelnikov