Admiral Gorshkov: The Man Who Challenged the U.S. Navy (Blue & Gold)

by Norman Polmar, Thomas A. Brooks, and George E. Fedoroff

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Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G. Gorshkov was the product of a tradition unlike those of his Western contemporaries. He had a unique background of revolution, civil war, world wars, and the forceful implementation of an all-controlling communist dictatorship. Out of this background of violence and overwhelming transformation came a man with a clear understanding of the value of navies, but with his own unique ideas about the kind of navy that the Soviet Union required, and the role that navy should play in Soviet military and national strategy.

Western naval observers have often...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781682473306
  • Publish Date 15 March 2019
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Naval Institute Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English