Publisher | US Naval Institute Press |
ISBN 13 | 9781399022811 |
ISBN 10 | 1399022814 |
Author | Przemyslaw Budzbon |
Language | English |
Book Description | Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost ("openness") the Russian st |
About the Author | THE AUTHORS grew up in Poland under Soviet domination and were forced to learn Russian, which guaranteed a profound understanding of Soviet-Russian thinking and the smallest nuances of its history. Their experience is varied but pertinent: Przemyslaw Budzbon worked closely with officers of the Soviet Navy for a dozen years, as a constructor of Soviet warships; Marek Twardowski, a curator at the Polish National Maritime Museum, has an outstanding background in professional maritime history; while Jan Radziemski, thanks to a wide network of contacts among historians and maritime enthusiasts in Russia, was able to reach information and sources unavailable to official researchers. |
Publication Date | 2023-08-31 |
Number of Pages | 320 pages |
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945, Volume I: Naval Auxiliaries Volume 3