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Oleg Okshewsky's memoir offers a gripping, first hand account from the commander of the DO-17Z bomber himself. The son of a Tsarist cavalry officer grew up in Serbia after the Russian Revolution. His memoir recounts his wartime experiences as a former Royal Yugoslavian Air Force commander who infiltrated the Croatian Air Force in an attempt to secure a plane for the Allies, only to be captured by the Soviets and sent to various POW camps and gulags in the Soviet Union. Oleg's own words come alive in Flying with the Enemy, over eighty years after the young airman tried to escape evil so he could fight Hitler another day.#history#russia#ukraine#yugoslavia#WWII#WW2#military#aviation#germany#airplanes
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Oleg Oksevski was born a son of a Russian Tsarist cavalry officer in 1915, in Yevpatoriya, Russia. Because of the Russian Revolution he was raised in Serbia and went to school at a Russian Cadet Acade...
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