Bell P-39 Airacobra & P-63 Kingcobra WW2 Fighter Warbird Books. 

I suggest, by Everett A. Long and Ivan Y. Negenblya, with Editor 
Tatiana Long.
0963457810

"Cobras Over The Tundra" is a collection short stories and moren than 140 black and white and color photos from both American and Russian sources. Photos never before available to the West are shown for the first time. Pilots from both sides died or suffered difficult rescues in the wildernesses of Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. Printed in both languages, this is their story and history of building the Alaska/Siberia (ALSIB) aerial bridge to fight a common foe - Nazi Germany.

The world's most inhospitable wilderness and most unforgiving weather cost lives to both Soviet and American pilots. This book is dedicated to those Soviet and American airmen who lost their lives making the world's greatest armada, spanning two continents--a success, On the monument in the Siberian village of Seymchan, one of the route's airdromes, there are some good words inscribed that say it best--" We shall never forget."

Authors Notes: Author of "Cobras Over The Tundra" a history of the Lend-Lease flights through Alaska to supply the Soviet Union with much needed warplanes.  This book is a collection of high quality photographs and stories of courage.  Young American and Russian airmen had to challenge the bitter cold of the Arctic winters, and the mosquitoes of summer flying over the tundra.  This is their story.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Arktika Pub; 2nd edition (October 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0963457810
ISBN-13: 978-0963457813

Everett's Homepage
About the Author
Everett A. Long, was a founding member of the Interior and Arctic Alaska Aeronautical Foundation, which established the Alaskaland Pioneer Air Museum in Fairbanks. In June 1990, he became the first American pilot to fly his own airplane (Cessna 172), along the ALSIB route from Fairbanks to Yakutsk. Since 1980, he has been actively writing articles on the air pioneers of Alaska and the Arctic for his own weekly column in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, aviation news publications, and magazines. He directed two searches for the Soviet airplane, N-209 (Commander Sigizmund Levanevsky) which had been missing since August 12, 1937 during the flight from the USSR (Moscow) to the USA (Fairbanks). One search was north east of Old Crow, Northwest Territories, Canada, and the other was through the ice pack off shore of Oliktok point on the North Coast of Alaska. His article concerning the searches for Levanevsky's plane was published in the "Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine".

 This book contains photos, drawings, and excerpts from previously "secret" and "restricted" technical manuals  produced by the government and aircraft manufacturers, as well as vintage photos of aircraft during prototype and  manufacturing stages, exploded views, phantom drawings from tech manuals, and more. For military and aviation  enthusiasts. 

Paperback: 100 pages
Publisher: Specialty Press; 1st edition (October 4, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580070108
ISBN-13: 978-1580070102

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Testing World War II Single-Engined Fighter Aircraft.
Caygill. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of seventeen different World War II fighter aircraft from the U.K., the USA and Germany in this book that examines test results and pilots' own firsthand accounts. Covered aircraft include the Hurricane, Spitfire, Bf 109, Fw 190, Buffalo, Tomahawk (Warhawk), Airacobra, Mustang, Martlet (Wildcat), Thunderbolt and Corsair - all legendary types that saw a great deal of wartime action. 224 pages, 80 B&W photographs, 6"x 9", hardcover.
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Aero Publishers; 1st edition (1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830683895
ISBN-13: 978-0830683895

Bell P-39 Airacobra
Robert F. Dorr, Jerry C. Scutts

The story of Bell's Cobras, from their design and introduction, use as  an excellent gun platform for low-level work, and fine ground-attack maneuvers. Also   noteworthy for being very heavily armed for the time, it could absorb considerable  punishment. The book traces the transition to use in the Far East and Russia. The  authors deal in detail with the many criticisms of the plane and give voice to those  who support it. 159 pgs., 200+ B&W photos, 8¾"x 11¾", hdbd.

Airacobra Advantage
The Flying Cannon 
Mitchell. 

Should this often maligned fighter rank with  contemporaries, the P-51, P-47 or P-38? This history of the P-39 offers background,  testing, combat history, data on every variant, plus an inventory of all known  surviving examples in the world. 130 photos, 8½"x 11", sfbd.

The Alaska-Siberia Connection
Hays.
The story of the WWII air route that supplied lend-lease aircraft from the U.S.  to Russia. From 1942-45 the Alaska/Siberia route was the most efficent way to ship  the much needed P-39s, A-20s, P-63s and other aircraft to help Russia halt the German advance. Distrust, language and weather were just some of the obstacles to overcome. 184 pgs., 6"x 9", hdbd.

Attack of the Airacobras
Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War Against Germany
Loza & Gebhardt. During its military struggle with Germany, the Soviet Union received a major boost with the arrival and deployment of nearly 5,000 Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter planes - courtesy of America's Lend-Lease program. The impact was dramatic, as the Soviets quickly adapted the planes into a lethal force. Focusing on the combat operations and daily life of one unit - the 9th Guards Fighter Division, book shows the primary mission was to protect Red Army operations from aerial attacks by the enemy. Based on interviews with Soviet veterans and extensive access to squadron histories and logbooks, book provides a rare and insightful look at what it was like to live and fight in this victorious air unit. 392 pages, 25 photographs, 6"x 9", hardcover.

Angels Twenty

A Young American Flyer a Long Way from Home Parks. A Harvard graduate, who was  educated by the 5th AAF recounts his experiences flying the P-39 in the SW Pacific.  The P-39, outmoded from the start, was utilized with bravery, humor and a will to  survive by the men of Beaver Squadron, through 1943. The story of the 2nd- rate  P-39 and the men who flew it has been neglected too long. 195 pgs., hdbd.

V. Roman    Airacobras Enter to the Combat/The Airacobras enter   Battle  Aerokhobbi, Kiev1993     Book Suggestion thanks to Dirk Broer