About the book: 1978 / The author of the story is the famous polar captain and famous writer-marinist, Hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Sergeevich Badigin. During the Great Patriotic War, the timber carrier "Clara Zetkin", commanded by Captain Badigin, was converted to transport steam locomotives from the USA to the USSR across the Pacific Ocean. Although the USSR was not at war with Japan, attacks on Soviet ships occurred constantly and these voyages were extremely dangerous. This book tells about funny and terrible incidents that happened during and between voyages, about meetings with friends and ill-wishers of the Soviet Union in America, about how peaceful merchant sailors fought on the invisible front of the great war. A documentary story by K. S. Badigin "With Steam Locomotives Across the Pacific Ocean" is taken from the collection "Ocean", published in 1978 by the publishing house "Children's Literature"".