Whiskey-Class Submarines: Soviet Project 613 Submarines in Service with Foreign Navies, 1951-1990

“Richly illustrated with rare archival photographs, maps, and specially commissioned color profiles, this authoritative study offers fresh insight into how a single Soviet design came to embody the Cold War's intersection of technology, ideology, and maritime strategy.” – Model Shipwrights

The Soviet Project 613 — better known in the West as the Whiskey-class — was among the most influential submarine designs of the early Cold War. Conceived in the late 1940s as a compact, rugged, and easily...