Red November
Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
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Publisher Description
“Red November delivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep the peace.”
—Steve Berry, author of The Paris Vendetta
W. Craig Reed, a former navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides a riveting portrayal of the secret underwater struggle between the US and the USSR in Red November. A spellbinding true-life adventure in the bestselling tradition of Blind Man’s Bluff, it reveals previously undisclosed details about the most dangerous, daring, and decorated missions of the Cold War, earning raves from New York Times bestselling authors David Morrell, who calls it, “palpably gripping,” and James Rollins, who says, “If Tom Clancy had turned The Hunt for Red October into a nonfiction thriller, Red November might be the result.”
A Submariner’s True Story: Written by a former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner, this is a firsthand account of the harrowing underwater conflict that defined an era.Declassified Cold War Operations: Go inside four of the most secret submarine projects for the first time, including the top-secret Holystone, Ivy Bells, Boresight, and Bulls Eye programs.The Brink of Nuclear War: Experience the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis from below the waves, where a single order could have triggered global annihilation.The Underwater Tech Race: From the first diesel “smoke boats” to the dawn of the nuclear age, witness the covert technological battle for supremacy beneath the world’s oceans.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reed's personal experience as a navy recon diver, submarine weapons technician, and special ops photographer informs every page of this exhaustive and fascinating account of submarine technology and warfare from the end of WWII through the cold war. The author's father, William J. Reed, a navy communications specialist, helped develop the hardware that made possible long distance frequency direction finding that allowed listening stations to pinpoint the far away locations of ships or submarines. These HFDF stations, called "Huff Duffs," were instrumental in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Reed presents a vast cast of interesting characters and a daunting array of scientific technology, but manages to keep the material understandable, fresh, and exciting as befits a book devoted to the underwater world of high stakes submarine warfare. Decades-long gag orders keep participants from revealing really up-to-date secrets, though it's chilling to learn that from 1995 to 2005 the Chinese navy has launched 31 nuclear submarines.
