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 enlarge | Authors: Boris Gindin, David Hagberg
Publisher: Forge Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 39612
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 384
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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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 A look at the Cold War from a different view June 12, 2008
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
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
 A good read, but a few factual issues June 9, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As advertised, this book is a suspense-filled thriller. David Hagberg's fiction skills are clearly evident. But as for non-fiction, he must be clairvoyant in his ability to discern the thoughts of those people who neither he nor his co-author either inteviewed or knew. The inner thoughts of CPSU and Soviet Naval leaders in Moscow provide a good story, but I am not sure that they are accurate.
Small details are in error, but most are insignificant and would probably only be known to a Soviet Naval expert. However, His co-author should be just that expert. For example, the book details that the destroyer was parked next to an Alpha class submarine in Riga, the day of the mutiny in 1975. The first Alpha was cut in half in 1974; the second in the class did not appear until 1979. In the definitive account of the mutiny, "The Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired the Hunt for Red October", the adjacent sub was from the Foxtrot class.
The book does provide an interesting insight in to one man's view of the mutiny and the crew of the mutinous ship, but since he was incarcerated during most of the mutiny, even his account is often less than eyewitness. Buy the book, judge for yourself.
exciting look at the real events of the The Hunt for Red October May 14, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
In November 1975, Soviet anti-nuclear submarine frigate FFG Storozhevoy is docked in Riga, Latvia for normal maintenance and repair after six months at sea. Third in command Captain Valery Sablin is appalled by the wide corruption of leading Brezhnev officials and much of the bureaucracy overrun by party hacks including Soviet navy brass. He sees fat cats taking shortcuts with the lives of sailors to pocket money and obtains the best items for themselves and their family. Outraged as only a true believer can be, the Marxist/Leninist fundamentalist decides to take control of the vessel and sail to Leningrad where he would broadcast to the people to overthrown the corrupted. All went well with his plan until the Kremlin learned what he was doing and interceded.
This is the real events of the Soviet naval mutiny that led to the novel and movie The Hunt for Red October as related to novelist David Hagberg by then twenty-four years old Senior Lieutenant Gindin, who was part of the crew. The back ground of naval life in the totalitarian superpower is fascinating and well written while setting the stage for the exciting look at the events that happened in late 1975. Although nonfiction and told mostly by the viewpoint of Mr. Gindin though much supported by documentation, Mutiny is a tense thriller that grips readers from start to finish even with knowing the outcome.
Harriet Klausner
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