Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: Russian Armed Forces

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Documents: 12

3585	Men of the Sea. 99p. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [c.1960]. Stirring propaganda tales, mainly from the Black Seas Fleet, but including Kolyshikin's exploits in submarines and a tale of torpedo boats with the Northern Fleet. Reprinted in 2001, with the author given as G. Gaidovsky (ISBN: 0898752329).	view
3586	ACHKASOV, V., & PAVLOVICH, N. B. Soviet Naval Operations in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. xi, 393p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1981. ISBN: 0870216732 Translation of a 1973 history, by two Soviet historians who trace the development of strategy, tactics, and technology in the war.	view
3587	BUDZBON, Przemyslaw. Soviet Navy at War 1941–1945 (Warships Fotofax). 46p., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1989. ISBN: 1870519205. A selection of annotated photographs of the Soviet Fleet at war.	view
3588	GOLOVKO, Arsenil. With the Red Fleet: The War Memoirs of the Late Admiral Arsenil G. Golovko. 248p., illus., index. London: Putnam, 1965. Golovko was C-in-C of the Northern Fleet and therefore closely involved with the Arctic convoys. This is a fascinating but one-sided and often inaccurate view of the war.	view
3589	ISAKOV, I. S. The Red Fleet in the Second World War. 124p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1947. A brief general history. The particular interest lies in the presentation of the contemporary Russian view of the war in Arctic waters, from which the British emerge with small credit.	view
3590	KOLYSHKIN, I. Submarines in Arctic Waters (Memoirs). 253p., frontis. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966. ISBN: 0553248103. The wartime memoirs of Admiral Kolyshkin who commanded the Russian Arctic submarines based on Polyarnoe. Provides an interesting alternative account of the Arctic sea war.	view
3591	MEISTER, Jurg. The Soviet Navy (Navies of the Second World War). 2 vols., illus. London: Macdonald; New York: Doubleday, 1972. ISBN: 0356030431 (Vol. 1); 035603044X (Vol.2). Volume One covers capital ships and volume two covers minor surface vessels. As always in this series technical details are given by class. Only two of four planned volumes seem to have been published.	view
3592	MEISTER, Jurg. Soviet Warships of the Second World War. [vi], 348p., illus. London: Macdonald & Jane's; New York: Arco, 1977. ISBN: 0668040866. A guide by ship type and class, which includes vessels transferred under Lend-Lease. Notes on their operation and fate are included.	view
3593	MITCHELL, Mairin. The Red Fleet and the Royal Navy. 98p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942. A description of the fleet of Britain's new ally, its potential and how cooperation must increase.	view
3594	RUGE, Friedrich. The Soviets as Naval Opponents 1941–1945. vi, 210p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge: PSL; Annapolis: NIP, 1979. ISBN: 0850593905. Admiral Ruge presents Soviet naval activities as they appeared to the German side in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Arctic; this last deals in passing with the Arctic convoys.	view
3596	WOODWARD, David. The Russians at Sea. 255p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1965; New York: Praeger, 1966. In some 20 pages only the sparsest details are given of the Soviet naval effort in WWII.	view
3595	WESTWOOD, J. N.. Russian Naval Construction 1905–45. 251p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan/Birmingham UP, 1994. ISBN: 0333555538. Examines how the types, numbers and designs of Russian warships were determined in the years preceding the two World Wars, with the three-way interplay of naval staff, naval designers and political leaders, resulting in fleets that contained some outstanding units but which were, on the whole, inappropriate to the tasks set by those wars..	view