CONTENTS

THERE SHALL BE A NAVY

A Dream Comes True

The Lenin Enrolment

Service in Ships

With Faith in the Future

"Bays or Straits?"

A Troublesome Job

Commanding Officer of a Cruiser

Flying a Government Member's Flag

We are Growing Stronger

Cartagena

Cruise to the North

"Ys" are Coming

Our Comrades

THE PACIFIC OCEAN

An Appointment in the East

V.K.Blyukher

Lake Khasan

READINESS FOR ACTION, CONDITION ONE

An Unexpected Appointment

Europe at War

On the High Seas

Diplomats

Organisation—Key to Victory

Gathering Storm

What is Readiness?

The Enemy on the Frontiers

The Very Last Days

The Night of June 21-22

HOLDING OUT

Alarm Bells Clanging

Air Raid on Berlin

Defence of Tallin and Breakthrough to Kronstadt

Meetings with the Allies

The Moonsund Archipelago and the Hanko Peninsula

Odessa

A Difficult Autumn

Holding Out Till the Last Possibility

At the Walls of Moscow

Kerch and Feodosiya

Further Trials

Leningrad Attacks

Unconquered Sevastopol

The Northern Sea Routs

Enemy Drive Stemmed

Stalingrad

VICTORIOUS ADVANCE

Black Sea Fleet Goes Over Into the Offensive

The Siege of Leningrad Broken

The Country's Main Waterway

Landing a Descent in the Port of Novorossiisk

The Frigid Latitudes

Assault on the Crimea

Enemy Thrown Back From Leningrad

More Ships for the Northern Fleet

The Main Fleet Detachment Returns to Sevastopol

At Last!

Liberation of the Karelian Isthmus

Lake Naval Flotillas

Off the Shores of the Baltic Republics

Pechenga Recaptured

On the Danube

The Crimean Summit

At GHQ, Supreme Command

Drive for Berlin

Victory

War in the Far East

Unfading Glory

(Progress Publishers 1990. Translated from Russian by Vladimir Krivoshchekov)