Rising tide

by Weir, Gary E.

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Title Statements

Full title :Rising tide / by Gary E. Weir and Walter J. Boyne.

Summary

"Throughout the Cold War, Soviet submariners patrolled the world's oceans, playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with their American counterparts in a silent struggle hundreds of feet below the surface. Rising Tide tells the Soviet side of these secretive operations. Drawing on newly available archives, as well as interviews with a dozen former Soviet commanders - access never before granted to Western researchers - this narrative shows that confrontations between nuclear-armed subs were far more dangerous than we ever thought." "With sixteen pages of never-before-seen photos, Rising Tide recounts successful Soviet operations, including top secret exercises off the American coast, and espionage coups, such as the spy-ship that monitored American missile tests off the Florida coast and collected the debris in full view of the US Navy. All too common were the near-misses, heroic rescues, and deadly catastrophes that plagued Soviet submarines over the years, including the horrific nuclear accident on board the ill-fated K-19, later nicknamed the "Hiroshima"; the internal fire that sank the K-8 in 1970 with twenty-two sailors on board, and the dramatic escape of crewmembers from the Komsomolets in 1989, as narrated by a survivor."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Basic Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0465091121, 9780465091126
oclc:ocn459823394
LC Classification:V859.R9
Dewey Decimal:359.9/3/094709045

1. Stalins grand plan -- 2. Cruises and troubles -- 3. The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 4. The ever present danger -- 5. An uncertain nuclear beginning -- 6. A variety of intelligence gathering methods -- 7. Improving the breed -- 8. An insider's view of the mystery of the Kursk.