Blood on the Shores is both a first-person account and a meticulously researched study of Soviet naval special operations forces in World War II. It is based on the 1957 memoirs of Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Leonov, who commanded in combat the reconnaissance detachments of the Northern and Pacific fleets. Leonov describes his entry into the elite Northern Fleet naval scout unit in Ju…
Known to his countrymen as the "Unsinkable Captain," Japanese Naval Captain Tameichi Hara survived more than 100 sorties against Allied forces during WWII. His memoir was a best-selling paperback in the U.S. and Japan during the 1960s. For this hardcover edition, journalist Saito (Associated Press) spent hundreds of hours interviewing Hara in order to produce a more full and accurate report. U.…