Hostile Waters - Hardcover

Huchthausen, Peter A.; Kurdin, Igor; White, Robin A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786212152 ISBN 13: 9780786212156

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Presents the true story of sixty Russians who gave their lives to defuse an aging Soviet ballistic missile submarine off the coast of North Carolina in 1986

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Review:

During the Cold War, Soviet nuclear submarines tirelessly patrolled the Atlantic. Their missiles took aim at Washington, New York, and other major American cities. But they were also fairly low-tech contraptions, at least in comparison to the sophisticated U.S. subs that quietly tracked them. In 1986, one of these Soviet vessels nearly suffered a meltdown not far from Bermuda in what might have been a worse-than-Chernobyl accident. Hostile Waters tells this story more like a novel than a textbook, but also makes good use of declassified material and personal interviews. In his brief foreword, Tom Clancy calls it "one of the most fascinating true submarine stores I have ever encountered"--high praise from the man who brought us The Hunt for Red October.

From the Publisher:

6 1.5-hour cassettes

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0786212152
• ISBN 13: 9780786212156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 492