The true story of the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. Hailed as "unsinkable, " the "Kursk" was on maneuvers when mysterious explosions rocked the sub, causing it to sink to the bottom of the sea with its 118-man crew. This in-depth…
On August 12, 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barrents Sea, trapping 118 men inside. Did politics prevent the rescue of the crew from this ship once hailed unsinkable? Author claims this is the true story of what happened, as the world watched.
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Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's.
A At 11:28 a.m. on Saturday, August 12, 2000, high in the Arctic Circle under the roiling surface of the unforgiving Barents Sea, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia's elite Northern Fleet, through the last steps of firing a practice torpedo, part o…
Tells the inside story of the disaster that occurred aboard the "Kursk," a Russian submarine that was in the midst of an elaborate naval exercise in August, 2000, when a practice torpedo exploded, immediately killing seven, and stranding twenty-three men on the ocean floor.