Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet

The book describes in detail the discussions about the naval strategy and the shipbuilding progams in the Soviet political and military leadership from 1922 to the death of Stalin in 1953.

Ships Telegraph

"This is an essential work for the educated naval historian who knows his Soviet history."


Times Literary Supplement

"the authors of this fascinating book have ensured, however, that no portrait of Stalin lacking the element of his naval ambitions can be described as adequate