Podvodniye lodki v russkom i sovetskom flote

By Trusov, G.M.
(Submarines In Russian And Soviet Navy)
1957, SUDPROM GIZ Leningrad
Hardcover, 384 pages, numerous photos, drawings and fold-out sections
book is in Russian language

Descripton: A thorough account of the history of submarine design and use in mostly Imperial Russian Navy, written by a former IRN submariner. The Soviet Navy part seems almost like an excuse to write the tenfold bigger IRN part of the book, but carries tenfold more propaganda. Well, everything has a price in this world...