Red November
Inside the Secret U.S.Soviet Submarine War

Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, fortyfiveyear struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades, their work has remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, in this riveting new history, W. Craig Reed, a former navy diver and fastattack submariner, provides an eyeopening, pulsepounding narrative of the underwater struggles and espionage operations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that brought us to the brink of nuclear war more than once. Red November is filled with hairraising, behindthescenes stories that take you deep beneath the surface and into the action during the entire Cold War period from 1946 through 1992. Reed served aboard submarines involved in espionage operations, and his father was a top military intelligence specialist intimately involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reed is one of the first authors to obtain so many indepth interviews with dozens of navy divers, espionage operatives, submariners, and government officials on both sides (including several Soviet submarine captains) about the most daring and decorated missions of the conflict, including topsecret Ivy Bells, Boresight, Bulls Eye, and Holystone operations.Transcending traditional submarine, espionage, and Cold War accounts, Red November is an upclose examination of one of the most dangerous times in world history and an intimate look at the men and women who participated in our countrys longest and most expensive underwater war.