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Sontag, Sherry Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
PublicAffairs 1998 1891620088 / 9781891620089 First US edition-9th printing Hardcover Near fine Near fine Book
Near fine condition.PublicAffairs,1998.First US edition-9th printing(9 10).Cream hardback with blue borders(a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the cover and spine,silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases,nick and scratch on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings,maps,diagrams.Nice and clean pages with a small mark and nick on the outer edges,a couple of small creases and nicks on the edges of the pages,small mark inside the edge of the Dj cover.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear.368pp including Appendices A and B,notes,index.Price un-clipped.A collectable book This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: In an unusually successful amalgam, veteran journalists Sontag and Christopher Drew combine a gripping story with admirable research to relate previously unknown information. Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. depended heavily on submarines for intelligence gathering, whether tracking Soviet missile subs, monitoring Soviet harbors and missile tests or, in some cases, retrieving lost Soviet equipment. The U.S.S.R. responded with everything from comprehensive espionage operations to depth charge attacks on particularly intrusive snoopers. The broad outlines of this clandestine confrontation are relatively familiar, but the details have largely remained secret. Although the authors have based their book largely on interviews with submariners, intelligence operatives and politicians, they recognize the possibility of distortion and back up personal accounts with an elaborate and convincing system of verification. While necessarily incomplete, the resulting work depicts what was arguably the most successful long-term, large-scale intelligence operation in American history. From captains to seamen, the participants combined technical proficiency, insouciant courage and a cheerful scorn for regulations that often interfered with their missions. That mind-set was hardly calculated to avoid direct confrontations, and accidental collisions were not uncommon.
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