Stalking the Red Bear, Peter Sasgen
Stalking the Red Bear, Peter Sasgen
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Stalking the Red Bear
The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union

Author: Peter Sasgen

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/25/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Peter Sasgen

Peter Sasgen is a U.S. Navy veteran who has written a number of books, both fiction and nonfiction, on the subject of submarine warfare. He lives in Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan

Another submarine book but this one is frankly not near as good as many of the others. The author created a fictional submarine and commander based on interviews he did with retired or at least experienced navel personnel. That premise is OK but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. First of all......more

Goodreads review by Brendan

Fine book about covert U.S. submarine missions in the 1970s, but it's written in a fictional style. All in all, an okay book, but "Blind Man's Bluff" is a much superior book.......more

Goodreads review by Tracie

“Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union” by Peter Sasgen BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS: -Print: March 17, 2009; t. Martin's Press; 1st edition; 320 Pages; 978-0312380236 (Info from Amazon.com) -Digital: Yes, publisher info as above. 9780......more

The book follows the events of a typical Holystone spy-mission into the Barents Sea and even into the USSR waters and tells the dangerous ca-tan-mouse-game the Americans and Soviets played there. While it pretends to balance the story a bit by adding a Soviet perspective to this, it is still clearly......more