Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programmes 1935-1953

Jurgen Rohwer served in the German Navy during 1942-45, and later obtained a PhD at the University of Hamburg in 1954. From 1959 to 1989 he was Director of the Library of Contemporary History at Stuttgart, and since 1970 he has been Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart. From 1958 to 1986 he was Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Marine-Rundschau. From 1985 to 1991 he was Chairman of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War and from 1985 to 2000 he was a Vice-President of the International Commission on Military History. He is a member of numerous national and international organisations, including the US Naval Institute and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) Mikhail S. Monakov is Captain First Rank, and Chief of the History Branch, Main Staff of the Russian Navy. He graduated from the Higher Naval College in 1971 and from the Higher Naval Officers' Course in 1976, and defended his dissertation in 1999. He is a member of the editorial board of the leading Russian journal Morskoi sbornik, and has published many articles on naval history, predominantly in Russian journalsRohwer, Jurgen is the author of 'Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programmes 1935-1953', published 2000 under ISBN 9780714648958 and ISBN 0714648957.