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 enlarge | Authors: Boris Gindin, David Hagberg
Publisher: Forge Books
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 173840
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0765313502
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.1334
EAN: 9780765313508
ASIN: 0765313502
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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 Third rate fiction July 1, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for 'Mutiny' but ended up extremely disappointed. This may be explained as it's the author's first foray into non-fiction. He seems to rely on a single authoritative source -- LT Gindin, but he fantasizes the dialogue in the patrol and attack aircraft cockpits, in the Kremlin, and on the bridge of the Storozhevoy. Indeed, there were times when I though I was reading the movie script for 'Hunt for Red October;' e.g., James Earl Jones, 'Mother of God!,' Defense Minister Grechko, 'Dear God!' Did the author interview any of these pilots or the surviving crew members? If so, it would have been useful to document that in the acknowledgments.
With regard to credible sources; Wikipedia? My kids are in high school and they are not allowed to use Wikipedia. I hammer the undergraduates I teach by telling them they will get a failing grade if they cite Wikipedia or and other dubious on-line source in a term paper. How did this author get published?
In early 1976 I was at sea in a submarine whe I heard the story of the Storozhevoy. It's an important story that deserves much better treatment. For Mr. Hagberg, please stick with fiction, you're good at that.
 Ineresting, but ... June 28, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Mutiny" by David Hagberg and Boris Gindin is the story of the real-life mutiny aboard the Soviet naval vessel Storoshevoy in 1975, an incident that sparked the creation of Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October".
Gildin himself was an officer aboard the Storoshevoy, held prisoner by the mutineers, so a substantial portion of the book can be told from an eyewitness perspective, but nonetheless the story seemed to me to somehow lack the immediacy I would expect. For one thing, the lack of photographs and maps and ship's plans proves something of an obstacle in better envisioning what went on. And discussion of the aftermath of the failed mutiny is curiously lacking in detais. I was left feeling that I had read only half a story.
 Excellent mix of History and Emotion June 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very vivid and entertaining account of a little known historical event. The book exmaines the struggles of communist Russia and gives insight into the military of the USSR. I enjoy how the book flashes between the actual event and many events of Russian history and Naval history. Any fan of history and international cultures should pick up this book!
A look at the Cold War from a different view June 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired The Hunt For Red October
Mutiny is a first hand story of how life was in Communist Russia during the time of the Cold War. Men who were taught from the beginning of their lives to think a certain way and then realized that it was all a lie. The fact that we lived during the Cold War is historical. This book puts a human interest side to that. Mutiny is a suspenseful book made all the more interesting because it is an account of a true event. It is a book worth reading.
the real Red October, not quite June 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This an interesting story of the real Soviet naval mutiny that supposedly inspired Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for the Red October". In fact this mutiny was staged by a starry eyed zampolit, political officer, who falsely and naively believed the Soviet people would rise up and reform the broken Soviet system because he commandeered Soviet warship and broadcast his personal manifesto. Unfortunately, his radioman broadcast it in code so only other naval and military assets could understand the broadcast.
The background on Soviet naval life was very interesting but the actions of this guy amounted to a farce. That any of the crew survived to tell the story is incredible.
The book is an easy read. It is a good thing that the story is true because as fiction this tale would fail as contrived. It is not fiction, it is interesting, it just is not the Red October
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