The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines that Fought the Cold War
by GARY E. WEIR and WALTER J. BOYNE
First 2003 published
by Basic Books, New York
A black cloth bound book with siverlettering to spine in FINE condition. In a VERY GOOD PLUS unclipped dust wrapper .
ISBN 0 465 09112 1
Jacket blurbs
Of all the secrets the Soviet Union kept, none were more closely guarded than those involving their submarines. 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. For the first time, 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 gripping 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.
Russian submariners fought two battles in the Cold War: one against their American opponents, and another against the cruel Soviet leadership that knowingly put their lives at risk and caused so many needless deaths. Rising Tide also provides dramatic first-hand evidence that the final decision to launch a nuclear weapon resided solely in the hands of Soviet sub commanders. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the tragic sinking of the Kursk in 2000, Rising Tide offers an extraordinary insider's history of the Soviet submarine service, and sheds new light on the darkest secrets of the Cold War.
The authors
DR. GARY E. WEIR, a leading expert on submarines, is Historian of Science and Technology at the U.S. Naval Historical Center, and Adjunct Professor of History, University of Maryland University College. He is author of several books, including Forged in War: The Naval-Industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940-1961, winner of the Roosevelt Prize for Naval History, and An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment, 2002 recipient of the OAH's Richard W. Leopold Prize. He lives in Montgomery Village, Maryland.
WALTER J. BOYNE, former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel and Command Pilot. A New York Times bestselling author, his nonfiction books include Operation Iraqi Freedom: What Went Right, What Went Wrong and Why; and The Influence of Air Power on History; his fiction includes Dawn Over Kitty Hawk: The Novel of the Wright Brothers, and The Wild Blue (with Steven Thompson). He lives in Ashburn, Virginia.
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