Cry from the Deep: The Sinking of the Kursk

A "superb account" of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation's northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).

On August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an enormous explosion sank Russia's most prized nuclear submarine, the Kursk. When Vladmir Putin's men failed to rescue the 118 young submariners trapped under the icy Barents Sea and refused timely help from "foreigners" for four days, the Russian presi...