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The last sentry : the true story that inspired the hunt for Red October / Gregory D. Young, Nate Braden.

Title
The last sentry : the true story that inspired the hunt for Red October / Gregory D. Young, Nate Braden.
Author
Young, Gregory D., 1953-
Publication
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2005.

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Braden, Nate, 1968-
Description
x, 250 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "This real-life thriller, which inspired Tom Clancy's famous first novel, chronicles a 1975 mutiny aboard one of the Soviet Navy's most advanced warships, the destroyer Storozhevoy (Sentry in English). The mutiny was led by the ship's political officer, Valery Sablin, who planned to launch a revolution and overthrow the government. News of the incident was suppressed by the Soviets, but Gregory Young, an American naval officer studying at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, managed to piece the story together. In 1982 while doing some research in the basement of the U.S. Naval Academy library, Clancy came across Young's report of the attempt and wrote a fictionalized account that launched his career."
  • "The Sentry mutiny and the events that preceded and followed it have never before been told in detail. With the help of recently declassified KGB documents and Sablin family papers, Young and Russian linguist Nate Braden provide a full account of events as they unfolded. In telling the compelling story, they offer a candid portrait of life in the USSR and shed light on many myths of the Cold War."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Sablin, Valeriĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1939-1977
  • Storozhevoĭ (Ship)
  • Mutiny > Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union > History, Naval
  • Soviet Union > History > 1953-1985
  • Soviet Union > History, Naval
Genre/Form
Naval history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The parade -- The commissar -- The cause -- The service -- The mutiny -- The aftermath -- The suppression -- The legacy.
ISBN
1591149924 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004030762
OCLC
  • 57465590
  • SCSB-12047714
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library