Red November - Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War

Zusatztext " Red November is a terrific! real-life thriller! filled with larger than life warriors! technological wizardry! undersea games of chicken! and a civilian world perched unknowing on the brink of push-button nuclear destruction." Informationen zum Autor Born into a Navy family on the island of Guam, W. Craig Reed served as a U.S. Navy diver, submarine weapons technician, and special operations photographer deployed on nuclear fast-attack submarines. He lives in Silicon Valley, California. Klappentext The world came close to annihilation during the Cold War—a sobering fact known to few besides the warriors engaged in the forty-six-year conflict. In this riveting new history, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner W. Craig Reed provides a thrilling narrative of the tense underwater dramas and covert espionage operations that brought the United States and the former U.S.S.R. to the brink of nuclear war on several occasions. Riveting and eye-opening, Red November offers an intimate look at the lives of those who participated in our country’s longest, most expensive underwater war during one of the most dangerous eras in world history. Reed provides never-before-revealed details about some of the most dramatic episodes of the secret conflict—from the harrowing underwater cat-and-mouse chase in October 1962 that almost kicked off World War III to the desperate hours when the USS Seawolf sat grounded by engine failure at the bottom of the sea during an espionage mission in Soviet waters. Zusammenfassung “ Red November delivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep the peace.”  —Steve Berry, author of The Paris Vendetta W. Craig Reed, a former navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides a riveting portrayal of the secret underwater struggle between the US and the USSR in Red November. A spellbinding  true-life adventure in the bestselling tradition of Blind Man’s Bluff , it reveals previously undisclosed details about the most dangerous, daring, and decorated missions of the Cold War, earning raves from New York Times bestselling authors David Morrell, who calls it, “palpably gripping,” and James Rollins, who says, “If Tom Clancy had turned The Hunt for Red October into a nonfiction thriller, Red November might be the result.” ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: W Craig Reed, W. Craig Reed, Reed W. Craig
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.08.2011
• EAN: 9780061806773
• ISBN: 978-0-06-180677-3
• Seiten: 416
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Zeitgeschichte (1945 bis 1989); Sachbuch; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas, Military and defence strategy, USSR, Soviet Union, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Civil wars, Military engineering, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: MILITARY, HISTORY: Military / General, HISTORY: Military / Strategy, HISTORY: Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY: Military / Nuclear Warfare, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Military, History / 20th Century American