It is difficult to review this title without seeming overly uncharitable. Considerable enthusiasm is due the Series for taking up this critically unattended subject in Western literature, and indeed many of the books in this series are worthy of high praise, but alas Soviet Aces of World War 2 is not a distinguishing effort. A softcover trade size book, it contains 96 pages total, including 40 aircraft color plates, appendices, and two pages of scale line drawings.
The author has essentially codified all of the major Western stereotypes about the War-time VVS into a single volume, repeating myths that have been effectively abandoned by many Historians for a number of years. The pages are interwoven with a political editorial both unfair and unworthy a subject as complicated as the USSR in the 1930s and 40s, and seemingly every effort is made to down-play the accomplishments of Soviet aviation and flyers, both specifically and in general. Moreover, the text is replete with the most striking factual errors, both in regards to the Soviet aces and the aircraft of the VVS, and the color plates re-created in the volume have been a subject of extended correction on this very site.
In all, the book is not without some value, and there are indeed tid-bits of interesting information therein. However, in general modelers would be well to avoid the volume, as the pertinent information described throughout is often misleading, if not outright erroneous. Unfortunately, this title is not recommended.