20-30 years ago, people watched blockbusters about pirates of the twentieth century and said: “Incredible! Well, it’s a movie.” And today pirate lawlessness is reported on television news. Not a single ship can safely pass through the Gulf of Aden. Somali pirates have challenged the world. NATO and Russian military personnel were sent on ships to fight them...The fight against piracy began even before our era. This book contains amazing stories about the pirates of antiquity, Arab pirate fleets, Japanese and Chinese sea robbers, as well as about Vikings and corsairs, about the pirates of Ivan the Terrible who hunted in the Baltic Sea and the buccaneers and filibusters who rampaged through the Caribbean Sea. Fight against piracy!..< /p>