Red November
by W. Craig Reed · first published 2010
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Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the 46-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades their work has remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, W. Craig Reed, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides an eye-opening narrative of the underwater struggles and espionage operations between the United States and the former USSR that brought us several times to the brink of nuclear war. Reed served aboard submarines involved in espionage operations, and his father was a top naval intelligence specialist intimate
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…some nice extra commentary as well. That book blew the cover off missions that hadn’t been known to the public at all, so it was a bit controversial at release - the commentary touches on all that. Red November and The Taking of K129 are also great reads along these lines.
on “The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines” ↗…unclassified information about their historic capabilities, I'm pretty sure they can give a lot of detail without leaking anything not already public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS https://www.amazon.com/Red-November-Inside-U-S-Soviet-Submar...
on “Debris field found in search for missing submersible” ↗