The Lure of Neptune: German-Soviet Naval Collaboration and Ambitions, 1919-1941

Based largely on recently published Soviet documents and German archival sources, The Lure of Neptune illumines the collaborative yet competitive relationship that existed shared by the German and Russian navies between the First and Second World Wars. Tobias Philbin charts the uneven evolution of the symbiosis that developed as both Stallin and Hitler sought to build fleets that exceeded their grasps. Philbin contends that the course of Russo-German naval relations offers bot a window into the …