It took quite a bit longer and quite a bit more work than we had originally expected, but I am pleased to report that the e-book version of Dictatorship of the Air. The e-version appears this month as a new title in the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book project.

The DotA e-book is more than just a scanned version of the “book book.” ACLS selected DotA for inclusion as the first Russian history title in its special collection of XML books. These electronically tagged texts contain tools, functions, and capabilities, that (among other things) make make them fully searchable and linked to external internet resources.

Better yet, the ACLS edition contains a host of new stuff including nearly two-dozen additional photographs, full-color posters, digitized archival materials, and never before translated poems and short stories. It also comes with an extra chapter (on pre-WWII Soviet aviation films) that’s accompanied by half a dozen rare video clips.

So, how do you get yours?

ACLS XML titles are not for sale. But if you’re affiliated with one of the nearly 600 individual universities and consortia that subscribe to ACLS Humanities E-Book, you can access it for free through your institution’s library. Just click here.

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