The Last Sentry [electronic resource] : The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October
Material type:
- 9781612515328 (electronic bk.)
- 1612515320 (electronic bk.)
- Mutiny -- Soviet Union
- Sablin, Valerii? Mikhai?lovich, 1939-1977
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985
- Soviet Union -- History, Naval
- Storozhevoi? (Ship)
- Sablin, Valeri�i Mikha�ilovich, 1939-1977
- Storozhevo�i (Ship)
- Mutiny -- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985
- HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
- HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics
- HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- 947.085/2 947.0852
- DK274 .Y68 2013
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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 o
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