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Lädt ... All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion (2008)von Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. adult nonfiction; military history. well-told narrative of the events leading up to and the Cold War secrets surrounding the sinking of the USS Scorpion. ( ) This book was as well documented as the author's other book, Red Star Rogue, (K-120) which sank when a fail-safe system went into play as the ship tried to launch a nuke at Pearl Harbor. The Russians, not knowing about the fail safe believed for a long time that she was sunk by the US. The sinking of the Scorpion was a pay-back. What is amazing is that both the US and Russia agreed to keep the events secret to avoid an all-out war. The book concludes with 37 pages of the authors documents, interviews and sources. When I picked this book as one of my challenge reads I was not aware that it was so tightly connected to Red Star Rogue, one of my other reads. Reading the two of them so close together really helped make the situation much clearer. Sewell writes military (naval) history very well. I remember the loss of the Thresher and the Scorpion. And I remember that the Navy said both sank accidentally. The author of this book says the USSR baited the Scorpion into a kill box and torpedoed it. And that could be so. My quibble is that this book is written in such a way that the casual reader will think it's the official word, not one writer's opinion. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Soon after a junior officer at submarine communication sold secrets to the Soviets enabling them to decipher coded American submarine communications, a Soviet missile sub on a mission near Hawaii sank with all hands in February 1968. Two weeks later, a spy reported that a damaged U.S. submarine had arrived in Japan. Soviet files reveal and interviews confirm that high Soviet officials believed it had deliberately sunk their vessel. In revenge, they torpedoed the Scorpion on May 27, killing ninety-nine men. This engrossing overview of American and Soviet submarine operations includes capsule biographies of the Scorpion's captain and many of its crew and families. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)359.9Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Navy; Naval ScienceKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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