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Blind Man's Bluff
by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (2000-08-03)
ISBN: 0099409984
EAN: 9780099409984
Dewy Decimal #: 941
Paperback: 363 pages
SKU: 27314
Condition: New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 1998. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION. WITH GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS! HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE NEW! Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking. GREAT PACKAGING . Air Mail.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
Little is known--and less has been published--about American submarine espionage during the Cold War. These submerged sentinels silently monitored the Soviet Union's harbors, shadowed its subs, watched its missile tests, eavesdropped on its conversations, and even retrieved top-secret debris from the bottom of the sea. In an engaging mix of first-rate journalism and historical narrative, Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew describe what went on. "Most of the stories in Blind Man's Bluff have never been told publicly," they write, "and none have ever been told in this level of detail." Among their revelations is the most complete accounting to date of the 1968 disappearance of the U.S.S. Scorpion; the story of how the Navy located a live hydrogen bomb lost by the Air Force; and a plot by the CIA and Howard Hughes to steal a Soviet sub. The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves. Blind Man's Bluff is a compelling book about the courage, ingenuity, and patriotism of America's underwater spies. --John J. Miller
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Product Description
Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater lives—not even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the tapping of undersea Soviet telephone cables, the stealing of Soviet weapons, the tragic collisions of enemy submarines. They tell of medals awarded in secret and deaths disguised with disinformation. Blind Man's Bluff is a critical work of history that reads with all the excitement of a Tom Clancy novel and all the tragedy of Das Boot.
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Customer Reviews
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Untold story- told.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-08-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having served on a U.S. submarine I found this to be a fasinating story that the American people should hear. America and Russia were so close to a not so cold of a war many times during the Cold War.
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Suspenseful and interesting
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-08-07
This book was both suspenseful and interesting account of spying under the waves. While I find most Submarine books be overly simplified in the operation of the sub it's self the same is true here. While more detail is given by the author in our activities of taping the underwater telephone and data cables of the Soviets, more detailed technical information would have been helpful to me. Still an engaging book, which through it's pages let me to yet more books, it was well worth the read. While it might just be me but I want to know more of how the sub got to where it was going rather then just the fact that it did. Then again I like stereo instructions.
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Super popular for a reason
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-06-20
By no means a work of fine literature, this is still one of the best times I have had reading a book. Since I read it mostly in airplanes and airports, the following formed part of my experience - never in my life have so many people walked up to me and told me how much they loved a book I was reading.
Great stuff, very interesting. Reading this makes me think my own job is barely a step above washing dishes in the hierarchy of manly activities. Hats off, boys!
If you have any interest in the military, history, or military history, this should be an immediate purchase. Then, go check out the Great Game to see how spying on the Russians worked in the 18th and 19th centuries...
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Kinda makes you sad that the Cold War ever ended
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-06-09
Amazing stories of the US Navy's submarine service during the Cold War. These are the stories of the people who did the cool ops that you have always hoped we were doing. These submariners push the limits of bravery, patriotism, and courage often coming close to foolhardy. The author has gone so far as to locate some of the Soviet submariners and has included their comments. The stories begin after World War II and end only with the close of the Cold War.
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Unbelievable
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-24
I read this on the advice of a former naval Captain after I'd inquired about some of the things I'd read and seen in the "Hunt for Red October." This book will read like a great espionage fiction but it's all true. You'll be amazed each time when you suddenly remember "this really happened!" This book only increased my interest in submarine warfare and opened up a whole new world about underwater espionage. Most people think of submarines as attack vessels that fire their torpedoes and disappear. "Blind Mans Bluff" will put a face to the battles and educate the reader on the intelligence aspects of submariners: they did a LOT more than sink ships and slide around under the water. Fascinating.
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