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Oleg Okševski was born a son of a Russian Tsarist cavalry officer in 1915, in Yevpatoriya, Russia. Because of the Russian Revolution he was raised in Serbia and went to school at a Russian Cadet Academy. He later became a bomber pilot in the Royal Yugoslavian Air Force. When war broke out and Germany invaded Yugoslavia, Nazis told Serbians to walk to concentration camps, while the Croatians sympathized and gave in to Hitler. Oleg refused to walk to any sort of camp. He hid out hoping to meet a sub with other Serbian pilots leaving for North Africa to join American and British pilots to fight the Nazis. He literally missed the boat and now became stuck, surrounded by Germans. Oleg and his brother decided to pretend they were with the Croatians in order to get their hands on a plane and join the allies in Africa to fight the Nazis. After much training in Germany and the brothers miraculously still together, they ended up in the same plane with orders to fly not West but East! They were stunned not knowing what to do next. They were hoping on a mission anywhere but East. Still naïve in their mid twenties, and not understanding yet the full extent of Communism back then, they thought they would make the best of it and fly to Russia. After all, the Soviets were allies - Right? The bombing mission they were on flies in formation with other bombers to the Eastern Front. With great skill and risk, pilot Oleg banks his plane away from the rest of the formation and dramatically changes course heading into Soviet territory in a German plane. He flew for some time while being shot at by both Germans and Soviets and finally landed in a potato field on the outskirts of a Russian village. Villagers were shocked that a German bomber now sat in their village. Oleg explained everything to them until the KGB showed up. The KGB took them to the infamous Lubyanka prison in Moscow where they were interrogated. Oleg and Lev forgot how much danger they were still in because they were children of Tsarist "White" guard officers who fought the Bolshevik Reds! And they arrived in a German plane nonetheless! No matter how much they told Stalin's men that they were fighting the Nazis and were really with the Allies, Moscow did not believe them and they were moved from one prisoner of war camp to the next for almost five years. A camp director in one of the camps respected and loved Oleg and Lev, so much that he even let his two daughters meet the noblemen from Russian's historic destroyed past. The director wanted to show his daughters what a cultured, educated, aristocrat looked like since they all had been either killed or ran from the Soviets. The entire time in prison Oleg and Lev were pressured into becoming Soviet citizens and were expected to work as spies. They refused saying, "No way, you might as well kill us here right now!" The "Soviet Man" who was in charge, never saw such beauty and bravery from two young crazy men. Stalin really didn't know what to do with them. Finally, after the war, they put them on a train heading to Belgrade without identification papers of any kind. Communism came to Yugoslavia during the war under the guise of nationalism with Tito in charge. The brothers were now in trouble here too.

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Review During the Second World War Oleg Okshewsky ended up having to pretend he and his brother were Croatians in order to avoid being imprisoned and likely executed by the Nazi forces. Oleg was immediately assumed to be a Nazi himself and experienced the horrors of Russian prisons and deprivation for several years. This is a rare gem of a story, revealing much that the typical European and American would be oblivious to. I encourage you to buy this book and immerse yourself in an adventure that will etch itself powerfully upon your mind. - S.G. Fortosis Amazon Author & Seeyourselfinprint.com

From the Back Cover Oleg Okshewsky--the son of a Russian Tsarist cavalry officer--was born in 1915, one hundred years before his memoirs would be published. He was raised in Serbia and went to school at a Russian Cadet academy, then later became a bomber pilot in the Royal Yugoslavian Air Force. When war broke out and Germany invaded Yugoslavia, Nazis told the Serbians to walk to concentration camps, but Oleg refused. He hid out, hoping to meet a hydroplane or sub with other Serbian pilots leaving for North Africa to join American and British pilots to fight the Nazis. He had literally missed the boat and now was trapped, surrounded by the Germans. Oleg Okshewsky's own words come alive in Flying with the Enemy--almost seventy-five years after the young airman tried to escape evil so he could fight Hitler another day. There have been documentaries, interviews, and writings by his other surviving crew members, but Oleg's memoir offers a gripping, firsthand account from the commander of the DO-17Z bomber himself.

About the Author Although Oleg Okshewsky was never trained as a politician, historian, or writer, his lifetime of experience makes him an expert witness to the horrors seen in not only his past, but also in today's world. His predictions about Russia continue to hold true even today. In the United States he taught himself English and worked his way up in the textile industry in New York City. He was very active as a member of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Association of Russian Cadets Graduated Outside Russia. He also devoted much of his time as a Sunday school elder. He retired in early 1970 and bought a small restaurant, then retired for good in 1980. Flying with the Enemy was translated and written by Oleg's son George, who served in the United States Air Force for over 20 years.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A good read, and informative! By David R. Schaffer Flying with the Enemy is a memoir – one of a father dictating his memories to his son, who then provided the translations that form the text of this very human, very readable book. For someone who was born in the Russian Tsarist regime, lived through World War II and the Soviet Union era, and lived into the post-1990 formation of the present Russian Federation, it is a marvelous – yet still very readable – chronicle of those times. It is the memoir of a real human being, not a famous politician, or statesman, or film star.The father, who eventually arrived in America knowing almost no English language, admitted that “I never really, of course, felt truly American and never really became a ‘real’ American because during the first forty years of my life I had already been molded in Yugoslavia into a Slav, as a Russian who lived out his life completely in Serbia and never really thought like an American. But I must say I can’t complain.” And it is precisely this difference in how people from different cultures think and react to events that provides the vital insights into the way that a real human being managed to survive those major events of the 20th Century and the emergence of the new Russian Federation in the 1990-s.The father very astutely observes: “… in place of communism was left a vacuum and complete chaos. Thousands of unscrupulous people and various criminals and speculators have appeared. Additionally, the communists, NKVD, and GPU don’t give up that easily. Firstly, they, of course, gathered up all the money that they could in the Soviet Union. And still, though it’s so difficult for the [ordinary] Russian people to live, the communists continue to live well. They have a lot more opportunities to get further and live much better than the simple average Russian person.”A good read, and informative!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. an epic of survival against terrible odds By AudioBook Reviewer This memoir by Oleg Oksevski is fascinating and covers subjects not often written about in World War II histories. Oleg was a young flight officer of Russian ancestry but loyal to his Yugoslavian nation where he was raised. He and his brother were trained to fly British twin engine bombers. When Germany invaded Yugoslavia in April of 1941, most of the Yugoslavian aircraft were destroyed on the ground by German bombers. The British evacuated 200 Yugoslavian pilots to Egypt to join the fight against the Axis power. Oleg and his brother missed the last plane leaving for Egypt and were forced to go into hiding to evade being sent to prison camps. Later through connections they were able to bluff their way into the German Luftwaffe who believed they were Croatians loyal to the Axis. At the first opportunity, Oleg and his brother and two others flew their bomber and landed behind Russian lines to hand it over to the Soviets and request their assistance to travel on to Egypt to join forces with the British. They were stunned when they were promptly arrested by the NKVD (Soviet state police) and thrown into Lubyanka prison in Moscow.This story is really not at all about flying, it is an epic of survival against terrible odds. The most fascinating aspect of Oleg's experiences was his observations within the Soviet state and their paranoid reactions to his defection. Oleg and his compatriots were secreted away so that Allied diplomats would not learn of their existence. Tortured and eventually sent of as POW's (a death sentence in wartime Russian) the four survived on the good will of local commanders who knew they were Allied flyers. Later, the NKVD attempted to recruit the men as spies and return them to Tito's communist Yugoslavia, which they refused to do. Stalin returned them to Yugoslavia in 1946 without any documentation believing they would be executed as spies.The narrator Don Warrick does an admirable job with the many foreign names and words. It must be said this is an audio book that requires your attention with a lot of detail. It is also narrated in a rather soft spoken manner. This is no way detracted from the story, but it would be difficult to listen to this recording on your drive to work. I would recommend this memoir to anyone interested in Balkan and Russian history. Anyone looking to learn more about the NKVD and the inner workings of the Gulag system will find this a valuable first person source. It must be noted there are few memoirs like this translated into English and even fewer on audio. It was a compelling story.Audiobook was provided for review by the author.Please find this complete review and many others at my review blog[If this review helped, please press YES. Thanks!]

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. faking sympathies for the Germans By W Boudville The book offers a fascinating insight into a little regarded portion of World War 2, by taking us into the fractious cauldron of Yugoslavia. The author was a Serb beset by Croats and Germans. He describes how he out of necessity had to enlist in a German trained and supported air force. All the while being secretly pro-Allied. The Croatian Legion must have been hard up for skilled men, for them to have conscripted him. We see how the Germans tried with middling success to build support amongst a portion of the Yugoslavs.But the story continues with his capture [if this is the right word] by the Soviets. He speaks warmly of the Communists. Given that the book was written after the war, when he was safely ensconced in the US, it suggests that the narrative was indeed voluntary.We also get glimpses into the Soviet concerns about the infamous General Vlasov, who had defected to the Germans. Paranoia perhaps by the NKVD, who questioned the author closely about any information he could yield on Vlasov. He knew little of value on this matter. Yet for a reader who might already be well read on the war, the book furnishes extra heft and context about a terrible time.

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