Title: Commandos from the sea : Soviet naval spetsnaz in World War II /
Authors: Strekhnin, I︠U︡riĭ.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Soviet Union.; World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Soviet.; World War, 1939-1945 Reconnaissance operations, Soviet.; Special forces (Military science) Soviet Union.
Abstract: During the Cold War the Soviets' elite naval spetsnaz units earned the grudging respect of the world's special operations forces as the Eastern Bloc's toughest, best-trained commandos. Available for the first time in the West, this book tells the dramatic, action-packed story of the World War II forerunners of those spetsnaz - the naval ground reconnaissance detachments - as they led the Soviet advance through the Crimea with the Black Sea Fleet and through southeastern Europe with the Danube Flotilla.
Contents: Preface -- 1. To the aid station -- 2. Iron souvenir -- 3. Watch over the sea -- 4. Trust -- 5. "Nord" -- 6. Greetings, sailors! -- 7. A second line -- 8. Reinforcements have arrived -- 9. Iron gates -- 10. Ghosts of the Danube -- 11. A bridge near Belgrade -- 12. Operation "Flour" -- 13. Temptation -- 14. Two maps -- 15. Budapest underground -- 16. Hungarian comrades -- 17. Six lights -- 18. To the last border -- Epilogue.