Much has been written across the years about the much-decorated Chief of the Naval Staff, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov. Almost all of the biographies, papers, and mere anecdotes dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union’s World War Two exploits make glancing, even joking, references to the fact that Isakov had a leg amputated after heContinueContinue reading “December 1942: Admiral Isakov’s Life-Saving Amputation Nearly Kills Him After Luftwaffe Attack”
Unpublished Declassified Soviet Archives
Translating History 