Pirates, corsairs, privateers, filibusters, buccaneers... How long ago it seems. Or maybe this never happened? Only in fairy tales and legends, in novels and poems?.. In Byron’s “Corsair”, Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”? Yes, even in “Brigantine” by Pavel Kogan...

But no, after all, there was piracy, and people remember this again and again. Serious research and popular science books are appearing. Not only scientists and popularizers write, but even theorists and practitioners of naval affairs, naval commanders, like the author of this book - he was the chief of staff of the naval forces of the German Democratic Republic.