История морского пиратства

Translated from Polish by Jącek Machowski, "Pod czarna bandera" (Original title - "Under the Black Flag") Warszawa, 1970.
The book is a series of journalistic essays covering the history of piracy from ancient times to the present day. The author tried to give an idea of ​​all the main stages in the development of piracy. In a lively, sometimes even fictionalized form, it tells about the most striking pages of this story: about the activities of the sea robbers of antiquity, the corsairs of the Mediterranean coast, the filibusters of the West Indies and the Caribbean, the pirates of the Indian Ocean and the South Seas. Time of action - from the ancient world to the present day. The place of action is the whole planet. All the seas, where, in the words of Kipling, "both here and there the pirate fleet sent greetings to oncoming ships."