Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945, Volume I: Major Combatants Budzbon Przemyslaw
Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945, Volume I: Major Combatants Budzbon Przemyslaw Seventy-five years after the end of the World War II the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates…
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Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945, Volume I: Major Combatants Budzbon Przemyslaw
Seventy-five years after the end of the World War II the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. Therefore, the value - and originality - of this book is difficult to exaggerate. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost ('openness') the Russian state has again restricted access to historical archives.
Divided into three volumes, this first covers major surface warships down to MTBs and armored gunboats, as well as submarines.For every class there is a design history analyzing strategic, tactical, and technical considerations, and individual ship detail It sees the first publication of reliable data on both the seagoing fleets and riverine flotillas of the Soviet Navy, listing over 6,200 vessels from battleships to river gunboats, and mercantile conversions as well as purpose-built warships.