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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag
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Two investigative reporters and a researcher tell the epic story of American espionage from the early Cold War Years to the Clinton Administration, showing how the Navy and CIA have used submarines to gather intelligence and launch covert operations... (read more)

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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag
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For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent achievement... (read more)

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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag
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Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater livesnot even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the... (read more)

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The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures
The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures
by Captain William R. Anderson
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Now, for the first time, the captain of the submarine USS Nautilus tells the newly declassified story of his ship's desperate Cold War race beneath the polar ice pack. The Cold War was in full swing. The Soviet Union had just successfully launched... (read more)

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Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story Ofthe USS Scorpion
Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story Ofthe USS Scorpion
by Ed Offley
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One Navy admiral called it “one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era.” To this day, the U.S. Navy officially describes it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story of the disaster has eluded journalists, historians, and the... (read more)

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The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945
The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945
by Flint Whitlock
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In World War II, a chosen few fought a silent war beneath the waves...These are their stories. In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, the small, ill-equipped arm of the Navy known as Submarine Force would stand between the shattered U.S. Pacific Fleet and... (read more)

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Cry from the Deep: The Sinking of the Kursk, the Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New Russia to the Ultimate Test
Cry from the Deep: The Sinking of the Kursk, the Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New Russia to the Ultimate Test
by Ramsey Flynn
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A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post–Cold War regime. What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to... (read more)

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Time To Die the Kursk Disaster
Time To Die the Kursk Disaster
by Robert Moore
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At 10.30am on Saturday August 12, 2000, two explosions shook the icy Artic waters of the Barents Sea. One of the largest and most technologically advanced nuclear subs in the world, carrying a crew of 118 Russian sailors, had rapidly crashed to the ocean... (read more)

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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas
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On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic.Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived.While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend... (read more)

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Submarine Disasters
Submarine Disasters
by David Miller
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An in-depth look at the worst submarine catastrophes of all time.... (read more)

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Cry From the Deep the Sinking of the Kur
Cry From the Deep the Sinking of the Kur
by Ramsey Flynn
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On August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an enormous explosion sank Russia's most prized nuclear submarine, the Kursk. When Vladmir Putin's men failed to rescue the 118 young submariners trapped... (read more)

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Submarines (Transportation)
Submarines (Transportation)
by Darlene R Stille
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FEATURES- Full-color photography- Guaranteed sewn library binding- Table of contents, index, and glossary- Additional resources and facts- Accelerated Reader quizzes available Spring... (read more)

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Enigma U-Boats: Breaking the Code
Enigma U-Boats: Breaking the Code
by Jak P. Mallmann Showell
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A leading U-boat authority describes the famous German code machine, its role in U-boat operations, and how the British obtained Enigma machines and broke the code.... (read more)

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Big Red: Inside the Secret World of a Trident Nuclear Submarine
Big Red: Inside the Secret World of a Trident Nuclear Submarine
by Douglas C Waller
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The Cold War may be over, but nuclear submarines still lurk beneath the sea. Taller in length than the Washington Monument, wider at its center than a three-lane highway, the 18,750-ton Trident nuclear submarine, with 24 strategic missiles and more than... (read more)

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Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International Cooperation
Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International Cooperation
by Charles Krupnick
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With the end of the Cold War, Russias submarines were no longer needed to deter or fight Western navies and were very expensive to operate and maintain. Older submarines were taken out of service in large numbers, but without firm plans and... (read more)

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K-19
K-19
by Peter H Huchthausen
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The Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 was the pride of the Soviet Navy, but on July 4, 1961, during its maiden voyage to the North Atlantic for war games, it suddenly and unexpectedly developed a serious leak in one of the reactors. In a race against time... (read more)

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Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strick Attempt on the U.S.
Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strick Attempt on the U.S.
by Kenneth Sewell
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One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence... (read more)

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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas
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On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive.Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on... (read more)

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Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
by Tom Clancy and John Gresham
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Clancy's first nonfiction blockbuster is now available in its first mass market edition. Taking readers on a tour of the "USS Miami, " a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, this edition is updated to include new material on "Seawolf" and "Virginia."... (read more)

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Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Sumbarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Sumbarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
by Kenneth Sewell
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March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters... (read more)

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