The MiG-21 provided the backbone of frontline Arab air combat strength for many years, the interceptor remaining the Arabs' only real hope of challenging Israeli air supremacy in the region. This book tells the story of the MiG-21 (and MiG-19) in Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi service in far greater detail than has ever been published before, either in the West or even within the Arab world itself. It includes numerous photographs, a large proportion of which have never previously been published. A substantial part of the text consists of the recollections of Arab MiG pilots, none of which have ever appeared in print before.