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

Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer

A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated from the Russian.