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In 1975, a disillusioned Soviet Navy officer named Valery Sablin, intending to launch a revolution and overthrow the government, led a mutiny aboard the destroyer Storozhevoy (or Sentry). News of the mutiny was suppressed, but Young, an American naval officer studying at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, pieced together an account of it. A few years later, novelist Clancy came across Young's report in the basement of the U.S. Naval Academy library and used it as the foundation for the thriller that launched his career. Here, Young and Braden, a former Marine intelligence officer, provide a full account of the incident and the events that prompted it with the help of recently declassified KGB documents and Sablin family papers. With 16 pages of b&w photos and maps. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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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.
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