Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945 Seventy-five years after the end of World War II the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. Therefore, the value -…
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Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945
Seventy-five years after the end of 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 work is difficult to exaggerate.This second part of the three-volume series includes all the remaining fighting vessels not already covered in Volume I. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost the Russian state has again restricted access to historical archives.
Many of these vessels have hitherto Beginning with the Uragan class - rated as escort ships and the first seagoing warships designed by the Soviet Union - the book then moves on to submarine hunters, both large and small, patrol craft, minelayers and minesweepers, and unusual types like floating artillery batteries and anti-aircraft defense ships, concluding with landing ships and craft.