All Hands Down
The True Story of the Soviet Attack on USS Scorpion

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma… In May of 1968 the U.S. submarine Scorpion was lost with all 99 souls onboard. What happened to her is still something of a mystery. Her last transmission was on the 20th of May when a communications station in Greece picked up a message from Commander S......more

I remember the loss of the Thresher and the Scorpion. And I remember that the Navy said both sank accidentally. The author of this book says the USSR baited the Scorpion into a kill box and torpedoed it. And that could be so. My quibble is that this book is written in such a way that the casual read......more

This is a sobering, engaging book. I had read part of it in a bookstore, waiting for my girls, and then the Library became my next source to finish; I had to wait a couple of weeks, but when I got it I was captured (and ask the booklady about how hard it is to keep my attention on a book without fal......more

I enjoy reading books about submarines, both fiction and non-fiction. This is a fairly recent book that purports to shed new light on the loss of the USS Scorpion in 1968. The writing is quite good. The authors do a good job of educating the reader about life on a submarine, as well as introducing us......more

While I enjoyed reading this book and it kept my attention, readers need to be aware that this book is discussing a theory. The Scorpion was allegedly sunk out of retaliation for the sinking of the Soviet submarine K-129. The author devotes a good amount of the book to John Walker and him selling to......more