WARSHIPS OF THE SOVIET FLEETS, VOLUME 1, 1939-1945: Major Combatants

Seventy-five years after WWII, 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 state again restricted access to historical archives. This guide lists over 6,000 vessels from battleships to river gunboats, and mercantile conversions as well as purpose-built warships. Fully illus.