old book WITH THE RED FLEET SOVIET NAVY WW2 MEMOIRS golovko

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old book WITH THE RED FLEET SOVIET NAVY WW2 MEMOIRS golovko
old book WITH THE RED FLEET SOVIET NAVY WW2 MEMOIRS golovko
WITH THE RED FLEET:
THE WAR MEMOIRS OF
By Arseni Golovko
Printed in 1965
257 pages  - Hardcover (9 inches - 23 cm tall)
Photos - Index - Maps
CONDITION: Very good, few tears to dust jacket. Light general aging. B
inding solid, pages clean, etc.  Dust jacket in new plastic protector.
Arseny Grigoryevich Golovko (1906-1962) was a Soviet admiral, whose naval service extended from the 1920s through the early Cold War.
He entered the Soviet Navy in 1925 and graduated in 1928 from the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School in Leningrad. After that he served in various Fleet assignments. In 1937 and 1938 he took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans. After his return to the USSR he attended the naval warfare school. From 1940 to 1946, during the Second World War, he was Commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet.
After the war he held various naval commands, among them Commander of the Baltic Fleet. In 1956 he was named First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy. He died in 1962.
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