Interview With GorshinChapter 5
"As February ground on," the old Admiral said, "the Auxiliary Cruisers Peterburg and Smolensk arrived at the anchorage off Nossi Be'. They had been recalled to the Baltic after a very successful campaign in the seas around Japan. Single-handed they'd driven Japanese coastal traffic into its harbours." "They were what came to be described as Disguised Merchant Raiders. They had these false superstructures that concealed their guns. Often flying the British Merchant flag, when they...