the authors of this fascinating book have ensured ... that no portrait of Stalin lacking the element of his naval ambitions can be described as adequate - Times Literary Supplement
This is an essential work for the educated naval historian who knows his Soviet history. - Ships Telegraph
'This book is essential to understanding a phenomenon - Soviet naval expansion post-1945 - which increasingly distorted British naval policy prior to 1982 and from whose shadow we weren't wholly free even after the collapse of the USSR.'
Mark Brady, The Naval Review
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