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Over the course of five combat patrols during the Pacific War, Commander Fluckey reinvented submarine warfare, pioneering audacious strategies to hunt and sink Japanese warships and merchant vessels. At the helm of the USS Barb, he directed his boat to attack warship convoys - never mind the lop-sided odds - and to slip into heavily defended enemy harbors to launch torpedoes at unsuspecting targets.
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Well Done!
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By: Don Keith
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Stalking the Red Bear
- The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
- By: Peter Sasgen
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
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Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War - the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical decisions - taking us closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before. This is the untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine.
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A Time to Die
- The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
- By: Robert Moore
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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On a quiet Saturday morning in August 2000, two explosions - one so massive it was detected by seismologists around the world - shot through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. Russia's prized submarine, the Kursk, began her fatal plunge to the ocean floor. Award-winning journalist Robert Moore presents a riveting, brilliantly researched account of the deadliest submarine disaster in history.
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Doomed To Unspeakable Deaths
- By Gillian on 02-09-17
By: Robert Moore
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Red November
- Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
- By: W. Craig Reed
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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Red November is filled with hair-raising, behind-the-scenes stories that take you deep beneath the surface and into the action of the Cold War. Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, 45-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades, their work has remained shrouded in secrecy.
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Blind Man's Bluff meets Cuban Missile Crisis
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Diamondhead
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When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then-unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed and kicked out of the Navy. To make matters worse, Mack then learns that the Diamondhead missiles were sold illegally by French industrialist and infamous politician Henri Foche.
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A Disastrous Departure of Style and Genre
- By GH on 01-09-13
By: Patrick Robinson
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The Bravest Man
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Tuohy follows Richard O'Kane, America's undersea ace of aces, and a few fearless submariners, during the U.S. submarine war in the Pacific. This grueling battle saw 10 million tons of Japanese shipping sunk by U.S. submarines, but the cost to the U.S. Navy was one in five of its boats, the highest casualty rate of the U.S. armed services.
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Great details of WWII Submarine Patrols
- By James B. Cookinham on 02-13-05
By: William Tuohy
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Wreck of the Carl D.
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- By: Michael Schumacher
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On November 18, 1958, a 623-foot limestone carrier - caught in one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history - broke in two and sank in less than five minutes. Four of the 35-person crew escaped to a small raft, to which they clung in total darkness, braving 30-foot waves and frigid temperatures. As the storm raged on, a search-and-rescue mission hunted for survivors, while the frantic citizens of nearby Rogers City, Michigan, anxiously awaited word of their loved ones' fates.
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A harrowing story of survival and loss
- By Ron T on 03-25-16
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The Taking of K-129
- How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
- By: Josh Dean
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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In the early hours of February 25, 1968, a Russian submarine armed with three nuclear ballistic missiles set sail from its base in Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished. As the Soviet navy searched in vain for the lost vessel, a small, highly classified American operation using sophisticated deep-sea spy equipment found it - wrecked on the sea floor at a depth of 16,800 feet, far beyond the capabilities of any salvage that existed.
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One of the great stories in history
- By Ben Newman on 11-21-17
By: Josh Dean
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Where Divers Dare
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- By: Randall Peffer
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In the tradition of Shadow Divers, the story of the courageous men who dived on the last sunken U-Boat off the Eastern Seaboard. On April 16, 1944, the tanker SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the U-550. In return the sub was sent to the bottom by three destroyer escorts that were guarding the convoy. For more than 60 years the location of the U-boat's wreck eluded divers. In 2012 a team found it.
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great story but at times a little too much...
- By Anthony Karis on 02-28-18
By: Randall Peffer
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Left for Dead
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For fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and helps exonerate the ship's captain 50 years later. Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was just 11 years old. This was 50 years after the ship had sunk, throwing more than 1,000 men into shark-infested waters - a long 50 years in which justice still had not been served.
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Incredible story, incredible book!
- By Marty on 01-24-21
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I REMEMBER THESE HEROES
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Interesting Insight in to Operation Ivy Bells
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- Stephen
- 12-19-08
All Hands Down
The book was written in an entertaining way, my compliments to the authors. The research was weak and explanations conflicting.
I get the feeling the project was a rush job by the publishers/editors to get it on the street. The authors give conflicting accounts of the final movements of the Scorpion (you cannot have an explosion and implosion simultaneously). There were multiple minor errors, (describing a Bekins moving van as orange in color instead of white: Allied moving vans are orange). If you are not interested in sound research and just want to wallow in a supermarket tabloid style story then the book is for you.
I recommend looking up USS Scorpion and K-129, separately, on the internet and you will see the same references the authors use with more plausible explanations as to what happened to the two boats.
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- Rick
- 06-29-08
If you like sub stories this is worth the read
Well paced, well written. Shocking... the way that in 1968 the Russians gave the US the deliberate combination of a sucker punch and a sniper's "head shot" to a fully crewed US NAVY nuclear sub that was simply going home after it's cruise. Perhaps that clear act of war was silenced because it might have caused the real thing to expand. Maybe the right decision, maybe not. You read and figure it out for yourself. A great read!
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- CST
- 12-03-20
Pure conjecture!
Assumes the outcome, provides no proof and covers mostly unrelated information and conjecture. Ignores almost all the information presented in "Silent Steel" published a couple years before this. Waste of time.
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- Special K -AZ
- 11-24-20
The Sad Truth About The Loss of The USS Scorpion
"The loss of 99 lives is not enough to end civilization..." A senior Naval US intelligence officer attempting to justify the cover-up of the truth relating to the loss of the USS Scorpion.
In this story, the authors make a compelling case as to why and how the Russians sank a US Nuclear Submarine. The personal stories of some of her crew and their families make the human cost of this act of war more compelling. The technical explanations of submarine workings and life aboard them added greatly to the story.
The year was 1968, President Johnson was deeply enmeshed in the fractious Vietnam War and its fallout. He had already failed to act with any type of decisive retaliation after the Soviet/North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo. It sent a message to the Russians that he was weak willed... and they in turn, retaliated for what may have been a mistaken belief that we had intentionally previously sunk one of their nuclear submarines. They were right about Johnson.
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- JustBill
- 03-03-17
MEDAL OF HONOR
Every man on the Scorpian deserves the Medal Of Honor. Americans should be rightfully outraged.
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- Dario Perryman
- 08-20-16
Well done
well documented and told. I remember these events very well, and would never have imagined how they were all linked together. The Walker spy family may have been the worst thing every for our country, and leaves little doubt we would have been hard pressed had a shooting war with the soviets occured.
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- John Eiklor
- 09-07-09
Well written, thought provoking
Well woven. Loved every minute!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-25-23
Very depressing for a Submarine Vet
I found the descriptions of Submarine life pretty accurate. However; there was quite a bit of speculation for a “ true” story. It was depressing but very realistic when it came to the how the families reacted. I did several patrols on a Polaris SBM boat and the families never knew that we were ok until we returned 3 months after saying goodbye. No communications and no information. It is a special life and those on the Scorpion and Thresher and their families paid the ultimate price.
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- Lisa L
- 09-25-23
A Cold War in more ways than you know.
It’s amazing how much history, we don’t learn about until way after the actual events. The loss of the USS Scorpion was even more tragic because our own government, covered up the fact that they were attacked by the Soviets during the height of the Cold War which left surviving family members in the dark on what actually happened to their loved ones.
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- loren watts
- 04-04-23
Proof democrats in power drag the Us to war
Every war in the twentieth century causing Americans death can be laid at the feet of democrat inept leadership.
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