Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October

by Gregory Young, Nate Braden

Overview

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 on recently declassified KGB documents as well as the Sablin family's papers. It is a gripping account of a disillusioned idealist forced to make the agonizing choice between working within or destroying the system he is sworn to protect.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612515328
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	284
Sales rank:	915,052
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Gregory D. Young is a professor of Political Science and International Relations at The University of Colorado, Boulder. Nate Braden is a former U.S. Marine whose specialties as an intelligence officer included Russian linguist. He is the founder and owner of America and the World, Inc., an online publishing company in Denver.