Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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 in investigative reporting. It reads like a...
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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 in investigative reporting. It reads like a spy thriller -- except everything in it is true. This is an epic of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea, a story filled with unforgettable characters who engineered daring missions to tap the enemy's underwater communications cables and to shadow Soviet submarines. It is a story of heroes and spies, of bravery and tragedy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060977719 (006097771X)
ASIN: 006097771X
Publish date: October 3rd 2000
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
American,
War,
Military,
American History,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
World War II,
Military History
I remember when this book first came out. I was a teenager and my father picked it up immediately and was so excited about it that he told me about half the book in an evening when he was done. I remember lots of stories from it but always felt like I was missing some. It was one of those books he h...
I remember when this book first came out. I was a teenager and my father picked it up immediately and was so excited about it that he told me about half the book in an evening when he was done. I remember lots of stories from it but always felt like I was missing some. It was one of those books he h...
I remember when this book first came out. I was a teenager and my father picked it up immediately and was so excited about it that he told me about half the book in an evening when he was done. I remember lots of stories from it but always felt like I was missing some. It was one of those books he h...
The information was interesting, but the way that the author conveyed it made it seem dull.
Collisions between submarines is not fanciful idea. In 1998 two U.S. nuclear subs collided off Long Island. (http://www.armscontrol.ru/subs/collisions/comm0319.htm) Blind Man's Bluff, a book I read several years ago, is the non-fictional account of U.S. submarine espionage. Sontag reports several in...