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Title: Hostile Waters by Peter Huchthuasen, Igor Kurdin, R. Alan White ISBN: 0-312-96612-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful reading, strongly recommended.
Comment: A compelling account of a tragic accident and the loss of a USSR K219 submarine in the sea of Bermuda during the cold-war era. What makes this book so powerful is the contrast of courage and cowardness, responsibility and indifference, hostility and friendship among the participants of this story. The only complaint I have is I don't understand why this book had to be written in a Clancy kind of style (I mean if it is a "real" story), but I guess people's opinions would vary on that.
I wish Mr.Britanov, his colleagues and their families stay well. They tell me while the quality of the regime could vary vastly, there can be always heroic people with extraordinary courage no matter where.
Rating: 5
Summary: Non-Fiction Action Thriller
Comment: "Hostile Waters", by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin and R. Alan White. Thorndike Press, Thorndike, Maine, Large type edition, 1997.
An excellent book, dealing with the loss of the K-219, a Soviet Nuclear submarine, off the east coast of the United States. This book is non-fiction but it reads like a fast moving, modern day thrill novel, thanks, probably, to the efforts of author R. Alan White. The book also reads like a "you are there!" recitation of the events of the sinking, undoubtedly due to the efforts of Igor Kurdin, of the Russian Navy. Finally, there are some pointed comments about higher-level actions and reactions, probably due to the efforts of Captain Peter Huchthausen, USN, Retired. It is impressive that three different writers from such disparate backgrounds could produce a book that is such a well-written story of the events in the sinking of the K-219. It all comes together in such an interesting fashion that it was difficult to put the book down.
As we watch the world react to the aftermath of September 11 2001, we wonder why the CIA and the FBI did not have better communications with each other agency. The provincialism and secrecy of the USN submarine service is well documented in this book. In some ways, this is a theme of this book; rivalry between service branches and within each service hinders cooperation and communications. On page 225, for example, you can find: the U.S. Navy's "... number one enemy: the United Sates Air Force". Personally, I can recall working as reliability engineer on a small Navy project in 1987, and I referenced an Air Force document as substantiation for my calculations. I was told, "Wrong color blue". Navy Blue versus Air Force blue.
Rating: 4
Summary: "The Hunt for Red October" only true
Comment: The parallels between this book and "The Hunt for Red October" are rather spooky considering "Hunt for Red October" was written first and is fictional while this book is non-fiction. Makes me wonder if some of the key players in this story were acting out "The Hunt for Red October" for real.
As an ex US submarine officer, I found some to the facts here difficult to believe. It is possible that the Soviet navy was just very different from the US. Still it is difficult to believe that the Soviets did not know how to do an air drop at sea or design fail-safe reactors.
I found the characters: their lifestyle and politics interesting. The officers of a submarine must have been a very conservative sample of Soviet society yet, here in 1986, they were feed up with the Soviet regime and mocked its politics.
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Title: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew ISBN: 006103004X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub by Lee Vyborny, Don Davis ISBN: 0451207777 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Time to Die : The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy by Robert Moore ISBN: 0609610007 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas ISBN: 0061014591 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: October Fury by Peter Huchthausen ISBN: 0471415340 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 25 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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