Book Review of
Warsaw Pact Vol. II
Author: Unknown
Kagero Camouflage & Decals no 8
Copyright: 2021
MSRP: $27.95
MSRP: $27.95
HISTORY:
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO), officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact (WP), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO[6][7][8][9] in 1955 as per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954.
Dominated by the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to NATO. There was no direct military confrontation between the two organisations; instead, the conflict was fought on an ideological basis and in proxy wars. Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs.
Its largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 (with the participation of all Pact nations except Albania and Romania), which, in part, resulted in Albania withdrawing from the Pact less than a month later. The Pact began to unravel with the spread of the Revolutions of 1989 through the Eastern Bloc, beginning with the Solidarity movement in Poland, its electoral success in June 1989 and the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989.
East Germany withdrew from the Pact following German reunification in 1990.
On 25 February 1991, at a meeting in Hungary, the Pact was declared at an end by the defense and foreign ministers of the six remaining member states. The USSR itself was dissolved in December 1991, although most of the former Soviet republics formed the Collective Security Treaty Organization shortly thereafter.
In the following 20 years, the Warsaw Pact countries outside the USSR each joined NATO (East Germany through its reunification with West Germany; and the Czech Republic and Slovakia as separate countries), as did the Baltic states which had been part of the Soviet Union.
THE BOOK:
Kagero is based in Lublin, Poland.
This book is staple-bound soft-covered of 40 pages in 8 ¼” x 11 ¾” page format. It is packaged in a self-sealing clear cello envelope and contains a decal sheet inserted that has multiple scales of markings for the Polish, East German and Czech Air Forces, but no Soviet ones. The sheet has a tissue to protect its face, but it was floating around loose, so I taped it to the sheet.
It is a portfolio of color profiles.
Captions are all in Polish and English.
It comes packaged in a clear self-sealing cello envelope.
The cover art shows an Czechoslovakian Mig-19 climbing above the clouds. It is overall bare metal with black fuselage no. 0740.
There are thirty-two side views, one 2-view and eight 4-views.
Seventeen are in East German Air Force markings.
Nine are in Czech Air Force markings.
Six are in Polish Air Force markings.
Nine are in Soviet Air Force markings.
Aircraft types shown are:
Mig-15bis, Lim-2, Lim-5P, Mig-15UTI, Mig-17F, Mig-17PF, Mig-19P, Mig-19PM, Mig-21bis, Mig-21PF, Mig-21PFM, Mig-23M, Mig-21MF, Mig-21MM and the Mig-29A.
Color patterns shown are overall bare metal or in a camouflage of gray and green wave pattern or two shades of green. Some have white nose cones and others have black ones. Some are shown carrying drop tanks.
The last page of the book shows 6 color cover arts of other Kagero aircraft books:
Bf-109A/F, Japanese Fighters, P-40, Bf-109F/G, Fw-190A and Warsaw Pact Vol. I.
This is a neat book of the colors and markings for Warsaw Pact aircraft. It will be of great interest to modelers and aviation historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample.
Casemate is the N. American distributor of Kagero books and all Kagero titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO), officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact (WP), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO[6][7][8][9] in 1955 as per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954.
Dominated by the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to NATO. There was no direct military confrontation between the two organisations; instead, the conflict was fought on an ideological basis and in proxy wars. Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs.
Its largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 (with the participation of all Pact nations except Albania and Romania), which, in part, resulted in Albania withdrawing from the Pact less than a month later. The Pact began to unravel with the spread of the Revolutions of 1989 through the Eastern Bloc, beginning with the Solidarity movement in Poland, its electoral success in June 1989 and the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989.
East Germany withdrew from the Pact following German reunification in 1990.
On 25 February 1991, at a meeting in Hungary, the Pact was declared at an end by the defense and foreign ministers of the six remaining member states. The USSR itself was dissolved in December 1991, although most of the former Soviet republics formed the Collective Security Treaty Organization shortly thereafter.
In the following 20 years, the Warsaw Pact countries outside the USSR each joined NATO (East Germany through its reunification with West Germany; and the Czech Republic and Slovakia as separate countries), as did the Baltic states which had been part of the Soviet Union.
THE BOOK:
Kagero is based in Lublin, Poland.
This book is staple-bound soft-covered of 40 pages in 8 ¼” x 11 ¾” page format. It is packaged in a self-sealing clear cello envelope and contains a decal sheet inserted that has multiple scales of markings for the Polish, East German and Czech Air Forces, but no Soviet ones. The sheet has a tissue to protect its face, but it was floating around loose, so I taped it to the sheet.
It is a portfolio of color profiles.
Captions are all in Polish and English.
It comes packaged in a clear self-sealing cello envelope.
The cover art shows an Czechoslovakian Mig-19 climbing above the clouds. It is overall bare metal with black fuselage no. 0740.
There are thirty-two side views, one 2-view and eight 4-views.
Seventeen are in East German Air Force markings.
Nine are in Czech Air Force markings.
Six are in Polish Air Force markings.
Nine are in Soviet Air Force markings.
Aircraft types shown are:
Mig-15bis, Lim-2, Lim-5P, Mig-15UTI, Mig-17F, Mig-17PF, Mig-19P, Mig-19PM, Mig-21bis, Mig-21PF, Mig-21PFM, Mig-23M, Mig-21MF, Mig-21MM and the Mig-29A.
Color patterns shown are overall bare metal or in a camouflage of gray and green wave pattern or two shades of green. Some have white nose cones and others have black ones. Some are shown carrying drop tanks.
The last page of the book shows 6 color cover arts of other Kagero aircraft books:
Bf-109A/F, Japanese Fighters, P-40, Bf-109F/G, Fw-190A and Warsaw Pact Vol. I.
This is a neat book of the colors and markings for Warsaw Pact aircraft. It will be of great interest to modelers and aviation historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample.
Casemate is the N. American distributor of Kagero books and all Kagero titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Highly Recommended.