Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond
Publisher: Pocket Star
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 64491
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 1416527338
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.930947
EAN: 9781416527336
ASIN: 1416527338
Publication Date: September 26, 2006
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March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters undetected? Navy veteran Kenneth Sewell, drawing from newly declassified documents and extensive confidential interviews, exposes the stunning truth behind an operation calculated to provoke war between the U.S. and China -- a nightmare scenario averted by only seconds. In full, authoritative detail, Red Star Rogue illuminates this history-shaping event -- and rings with chilling relevance in light of today's terrorist threat.
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 Reviewing "Red Star Rogue" September 15, 2008
For those of you who now dismiss the Cold War as just international rivalry at its most intense, this factual and very well written account of what almost happened to us via a rogue Russian missile-launching submarine and the resulting coverups (including the buiding and use of Hughes "Glomar Explorer") should be required reading. It wasn't the Cuban Missile crisis that almost started World War III...it was this, an attempt gone wrong to fire a Russian nuclear missile against the west coast of the US. A stark and frightening cautionary tale, indeed!
 Interesting read... June 16, 2008
Sounds like a lot of chop-busting interviews with this book, but I found it to be an interesting read. The one thing that chaffed me was the fact the Kindle does not support footnotes, which I think would add a lot to this book. You've got to take the author at face value to get through it and bear in mind, as with all "intelligence"-type books, that there's going to be some horse$h|+ thrown in there. I'm surprised nobody's made this book into a movie--I thought it would make a better screenplay than "The Hunt for Red October".
 Farce May 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a joke. Two wannabe authors make up some fiction based on John Craven's own wonderful ability to invent things in his head. There is no basis for any of this conjecture. The title is nuts. Who is the rogue?? Why does a tragic accident that takes down an sub and her brave crew get labeled a rogue?? Because why?? A fantasy?? Does anyone believe this 'sea story'???? A true sad waste of paper?? Not to mention very disrespectful of the professionals who went down with their ship.
Best, pb
Stunning Cold War Revelation May 23, 2008
A few months back I had lunch with an old friend and the conversation turned to the Cuban Missile Crisis. "That was the biggest event of the Cold War, don't you think?" my friend commented. I concurred. Then I read this outstanding and revelatory work of narrative history. RED STAR ROGUE makes a persuasive claim that the biggest -- yet heretofore unknown to the general public -- event of the Cold War was in fact this: In 1968 the Soviet submarine K-129 went rogue and sank while attempting to launch a nuke at Pearl Harbor. Sound preposterous? It won't after you read this. Sewell, a veteran of the USS Parche, and Richmond, an experienced and respected journalist, have made a compelling case for the above based on political and economic factors of the time, but also very specific nuclear, structural, engineering, and military personnel-related details garnered from a trove of only recently released US Naval documents and Soviet archives, and from extensive interviews with intelligence sources in both the US and Russia. The book is well sourced in the back and the adventurous reader can follow-up with the details on his or her own. Those of you compelled by this will also want to read Sewell's follow-up book, ALL HANDS DOWN.
 Comments April 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really neat book. Don't let your expectations exceed the quality of how the material is written. This book is poorly composed however the ideas fiction or non-fiction is quite fascinating. The story will keep you on your toes if you can ignore the writer's inexperience. I suggest any person looking for a good read at night before bed or on a rainy day, grab this book and talk about it with friends or your partner!
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