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Loading... Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired The Hunt For Red October (2008)by Boris Gindin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. http://thebookwormslibrary.com/?p=1352 ( ) Overall a good book. Not so much for excitement or action, but for the quick history of the Soviet Navy, and the incites to the mind set of the average Soviet Sailor during the Cold War. The recreating of the day to day life in the Soviet Navy and how they were forced to find creative ways to get what they needed to run and maintain their ship were inlighting.. Also the realization that a Sailor is a Sailor no matter what colour his uniform or Flag might be. (They have their equivalents to a bucket of steam, sea bats and left handed monkey wrenches). no reviews | add a review
In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your-seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international notoriety. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The Hunt for Red October actually happened, and Boris Gindin lived through every minute of it. After decades of silence and fear, Gindin has finally come forward to tell the entire story of the mutiny aboard the FFG Storozhevoy, the real-life Red October. It was the fall of 1975, and the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were climbing. It seemed the two nations were headed for thermonuclear war, and it was that fear that caused most of the crewman of the FFG Storozhevoy to mutiny. Their goal was to send a message to the Soviet people that the Communist government was corrupt and major changes were needed. That message never reached a single person. Within hours the orders came from on high to destroy the Storozhevoy and its crew members. And this would have happened if it weren't for Gindin and few others, whose heroism saved many lives. No library descriptions found. |
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