To the 70th anniversary of the decisive battle of the Great Patriotic War! The first air force encyclopedia of the Battle of Kursk, illustrated with hundreds of exclusive photographs from public archives and private collections. All about the combat use of aviation over the fiery arc. What was the ratio of forces in the air by July 1943? Did our Air Force manage to overcome the military-technical lag behind the Luftwaffe? Whose planes were better, tactics more effective, and pilots better prepared? What "trump cards" did both sides have? Who suffered heavy losses over the Kursk Bulge? Why in the early days of Operation Citadel was the enemy able to seize air supremacy and at what cost did the Stalinist falcons turn the tide of the battle? A new book by a leading aviation historian, based on both Soviet and German archival documents, combat logs and memoirs of veterans, answers all these questions.