Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Sumbarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.s. - Softcover

Sewell, Kenneth; Richmond, Clint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416527338 ISBN 13: 9781416527336

Publisher: Pocket Star, 2006

Synopsis

Documents the true story of a rogue Soviet submarine's 1968 attempt to provoke a war between the U.S. and China by firing a missile off the coast of Hawaii, in an account that offers insight into the subsequent cover-up and the event's influence on U.S. negotiations with the USSR and China. Reprint.

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Review:

"A remarkable account İfrom¨ a veteran submariner."

-- "Bookspan"

"Frightening....As exciting as any novel."

-- "The Associated Press"

"Frightening....As exciting as any novel."

-- "The Associated Press"

"A remarkable account [from] a veteran submariner."
-- "Bookspan"

"Reads like the latest Tom Clancy thriller....Fascinating...frightening."
-- "The Flint Journal"

"Frightening....As exciting as any novel."
-- "The Associated Press"

About the Author:

Kenneth R. Sewell is a nuclear engineer and a U.S. Navy veteran who spent five years aboard the USS Parche, a fast attack submarine that was the Navy's most decorated ship. Parche conducted a number of special operations, some of which were revealed in Blind Man's Bluff. Since leaving the Navy, Mr. Sewell has held both Department of Defense and Department of Energy security clearances. In researching Red Star Rogue, Mr. Sewell had access to recently declassified intelligence files in the U.S. and Soviet military archives that were opened after 1991, among other sources. A New York Times bestseller, Red Star Rogue has been optioned for film by Warner Brothers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1416527338
• ISBN 13: 9781416527336
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 462