Expendable Glory: A Russian Battleship in the Baltic, 1915-1917 (East European Monographs)

This is the dramatic story of how a single obsolescent Russian battleship named Slava, or "Glory," managed for more than two years during World War I to stave off the might of the German navy. Anchored in the Gulf of Riga and supported by a collection of gunboats and old destroyers from Russia's Baltic Fleet, this old battleship was considered expendable. In 1915 it lived up to its name by playing a vital, yet underappreciated role in the outcome of the war, preventing the German advance against Petrograd, the capital of Imperial Russia and a major industrial center.