Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War Book

The epic, courageous, and disastrous untold stories of the submarine war between the U.S. and the Soviets, through the eyes of the Russian admirals who commanded the submarine fleet. For devotees of submarine espionage such as Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/ Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War. For the first time, seven Russian admirals with decades of experience on submarines or commanding fleets give us the inside stories as told to leading naval historian Dr. Gary Weir. They detail the undersea successes, such as the surveillance of U.S. submarines leaving Puget Sound, and the innovative techniques Russia developed to trail the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. They reveal the development of the first nuclear submarines, and the internecine battles among Soviet bureaucrats that led to the deaths of many Russian sailors. And they give firsthand accounts of deadly events, such as the sinking of the K-219 off Bermuda and the collision of the U.S.S. Tautog and the Soviet K-108, including unpublished photos of the incident's aftermath. Rising Tide also reveals the many catastrophes and the occasional heroic rescues in the Soviet submarine fleet, and answers many questions surrounding the sensational loss of the Kursk in August 2000. Covering submarines from the first advanced diesel subs in the 1950s to the Kursk in 2000, with the authority only senior naval officials can deliver, Rising Tide is the complete story of the Soviet side of the gripping, secret life of the submariners in the Cold War. Rising Tide tells the story of one of the most important technological contests in human history, and does so in a gripping, exciting narrative.Read More