
The Last Sentry : The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October.
Title:
The Last Sentry : The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October.
Author:
Young, Gregory D.
ISBN:
9781612515328
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword by Nina Sablina and Mikhail Sablin -- Introduction: The Parade -- 1. The Commissar -- 2. The Cause -- 3. The Service -- 4. The Mutiny -- 5. The Aftermath -- 6. The Suppression -- 7. The Legacy -- Appendix A: Roster of Ship's Officers, BPK Storozhevoy, 8 November 1975 -- Appendix B: Characteristics of the Krivak I-class Destroyer -- Appendix C: Orientation Concerning an Incident in the Eastern Baltic -- Appendix D: An Active Position -- Appendix E: Valery Sablin's Broadcast to the Soviet People -- Appendix F: Investigation Report to the Minister of Defense, USSR -- Appendix G: Verdict in the Case of Third Rank Captain Valery Sablin and Seaman Alexander Shein -- Appendix H: KGB Report on the Storozhevoy Mutiny, 18 February 1976 -- Appendix I: Valery Sablin's Last Letters to His Wife and Son -- Glossary of Russian Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
Abstract:
Providing inspiration for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet government. Valery Sablin, a brilliant young political officer, seized control of the ship by convincing half the officers and all of the sailors to sail to Leningrad, where they would launch a new Russian Revolution. Suppressed in the Soviet Union for fifteen years, Young (the first American to uncover the mutiny twenty years ago) and Braden finally tell the untold story relying on recently declassified KGB documents as well as the Sablin family's papers. It is a gripping account of a disillusioned idealist forced to make the agonizing choice between working within or destroying the system he is sworn to protect.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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