Vivid account of courage in air-to-air combat over Europe Amazing and dramatic true story of a prince in battle Driven by intense hatred for the Soviet Union - the Bolsheviks murdered his uncle in 1917 and the secret police later executed his father - Prince Leonidas Maximciuc, nephew of the Russian tsar, joined up with Romanian and Free Russian forces in 1942 at the age of sixteen. Already a budding fighter pilot, the young prince began a career in which he scored fifty-two aerial victories, destroyed twenty-seven Soviet tanks, and survived being shot down nine times - all in under three years. After the war, Maximciuc fought with Romanian anti-Communists and eventually served twenty years in the US Air Force.
- ISBN10 0811732401
- ISBN13 9780811732406
- Publish Date 15 September 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stackpole Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English