Stalking the Red Bear The True Story of a US Cold War Submarine Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union (Audible Audio Edition) Peter Sasgen Charlie Thurston Tantor Audio Books
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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. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities knew anything about these top-secret missions.
Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection, the USS Blackfin went sub vs. sub deep within Soviet-controlled waters north of the Arctic Circle, where the risks were extraordinarily high and anything could happen. Listeners will know what it was like to carry out a covert mission aboard a nuke and experience the sights, sounds, and dangers unique to submarining.
Stalking the Red Bear The True Story of a US Cold War Submarine Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union (Audible Audio Edition) Peter Sasgen Charlie Thurston Tantor Audio Books
As many reviewers have stated this is about the Cold War history of submarine data gathering both visual and electronic. Fact based with some liberties taken for conversational fluidity, it is a good and quick read. The quick is my major issue with this work. While the book lists as 330 pages, only about 2/3 are part of the direct story. The last 1/3 is 3 Appendix that generally rehash 3 WW2 sub commander missions breifly discussed in the main text. There is also an extensive glossary, and a very extensive bibliography. A lot of this seems to be to fill out the length of the book.Some of my other issues with the books is the disjointedness of some of the descriptions. For example, one sub commander's debrief says that he moved his submarine under a Russian surfaced submarine. No reasons was given until later in the book when it was noted that there was a desire to get images of the hull of Russsian ships and submarines to understand the extent of their technology. So, while I was left wondering until late in the book why a sub captain would risk his crew, career, boat, and an international incident for something that seemed more like counting coup.
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Stalking the Red Bear The True Story of a US Cold War Submarine Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union (Audible Audio Edition) Peter Sasgen Charlie Thurston Tantor Audio Books Reviews
Engrossing and thorough account of life on a submarine, the training submariners must undergo at all levels of the hierarchy on the ship, the importance of submarines to our military and political successes, and fascinating accounts of how submarines gather intelligence and how that intelligence is used to protect US interests. Well-written, fact-filled, and full of respect for submariners. One of the best books I've read this year. Highly recommended.
Although there is a vast amount of information regarding the advanced possibilities of our maintaining our Navel Warfare Protection capabilities that I do not fully understand, after reading this book, I am much more comfortable regarding our continued existence. Unlike " The Hunt for Red October" which I vary much enjoyed, this book is based on fact, rather than fiction. As much as I enjoyed also factual book and movie. "U-571", "Stalking The Red Bear" is top Shelf in my library.
I thought this was a non-fiction book in the same vein of Blind Man's Bluff. It's actually historical fiction based on the author's research, I guess. It's not bad, just not what I thought It was getting.
Being a "Cold War", boat sailor myself I found it very accurate with security bounds. Vividly illustrates the stress we operated under. Although as a "Nuke", I do take exception to the accidental "scramming", of the reactor. On the boats I served on, a total of five that never happened once!
Having served on both Permit (Thresher) class and Sturgeon class boats, this sure brought back my West-Pac memories! The locations are different (Atlantic vs Pacific) but the story is so identical. My patrol was 81 days out of Pearl and we did get periscope liberty to look at Russia. Peter Sasgen did an excellent job of telling the story of life on patrol. Sturgeon class boats are still some of the finest boats the US has ever placed in service. This book will truly give the reader a very accurate view of life on the boat. Being enlisted, I did not have it as good as the officers and CO but we also had a fantastic skipper and he demanded the highest level of performance from all of us. If you are curious about submarines and their roll in our national defense, do yourself a favor and read Stalking the Red Bear!
Not a great book,but one that will keep your interest. I am no Navy man, but it seems like to me that there is a need for the a navy to issue wheel barrows so that these crews have an easier time carrying their brass male parts around- appoint well made by the book- A good read for a rainy afternoon......
A good read on cold war era submarine patrols. The author does a good job laying the groundwork for the book up front covering all the basics, then goes into a lot of detail on one patrol or mission. You need to keep in mind that subs operating in this timeframe were not sent out to shoot torpedoes and sink ships as in WWII, but to gather intelligence of all types. The author does a good job describing all of the Intel gathering that was done on this one mission, including test launches, Russian torpedo drills, Russian submarine surveillance, and more. I know a lot of the information from this time period is still classified, but it would have been nice to include a second patrol. This is a good book to read after reading Blind Mans Bluff.
As many reviewers have stated this is about the Cold War history of submarine data gathering both visual and electronic. Fact based with some liberties taken for conversational fluidity, it is a good and quick read. The quick is my major issue with this work. While the book lists as 330 pages, only about 2/3 are part of the direct story. The last 1/3 is 3 Appendix that generally rehash 3 WW2 sub commander missions breifly discussed in the main text. There is also an extensive glossary, and a very extensive bibliography. A lot of this seems to be to fill out the length of the book.
Some of my other issues with the books is the disjointedness of some of the descriptions. For example, one sub commander's debrief says that he moved his submarine under a Russian surfaced submarine. No reasons was given until later in the book when it was noted that there was a desire to get images of the hull of Russsian ships and submarines to understand the extent of their technology. So, while I was left wondering until late in the book why a sub captain would risk his crew, career, boat, and an international incident for something that seemed more like counting coup.
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