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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.984
EAN: 9780060977719
ISBN: 006097771X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 2000-10-03
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Editorial Reviews:

For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent achievement in investigative reporting. It reads like a spy thriller -- except everything in it is true. This is an epic of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea, a story filled with unforgettable characters who engineered daring missions to tap the enemy's underwater communications cables and to shadow Soviet submarines. It is a story of heroes and spies, of bravery and tragedy.




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Summary: An Excellent Account
Comment: Having participated in the submarine service during the Cold War in the 1960's, I found this to be an accurate and excellent accounting of many of the things we experienced. This is a well researched and book of experiences that I didn't think I would ever see published in my lifetime.

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Summary: Hmmm . . . how does this relate to my little booklet, Treasures?
Comment: Through some weird twist of fate, these reviews are appearing as though they relate to a 16-page booklet that I wrote in 1991 entitled "Treasures: Splendid Survivors of the Golden Gate International Exposition," which has as its subject the fate of a group of sculptures and a terra cotta fountain which are the sole free-standing remainders of the art on Treasure Island from the world's fair held there in 1939-1940.

Hmmm . . . I really ought to re-publish it and see if anyone would buy it from Amazon.

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Summary: Anecdotal history of US submarine epionage
Comment: This "history" of US submarine espionage since World War II reads more like a string of anecdotes and episodes. The stories are fascinating and a few of them are even historically important, but I'm not sure this is an "important" book as the New York Times Book Review is quoted on a cover blurb.

Yet it is fun to read, holds your interest, and does present some new material not publicly documented elsewhere. For example, a central portion of the book is about the undersea cable tapping of Russian military telecommunications that began in the 70s and continued through the early 90s. These were buried cables visited just off the the Northern and far Eastern coasts of Russia where US subs anchored over the cable, placed taps on the line, and came back months later to collect the taps and tapes and leave new ones.

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Summary: Good book - audible.com failed
Comment: The book is a great even if parts are inaccurate or fictionalized (I have no way of knowing for sure, but I would be surprised if everything happened exactly as presented. Have you ever experienced an event and then read an account of the same event in the newspaper?).
My complain is with audible.com. I thought I could download the book instead of buying the CDs or cassettes. I wanted to listen to it as I was exercising or travelling. I thought the file would be MP3, WMA, or something I could transfer to my MP3 player. No, the file is in a proprietary format (.aa) that requires the AudibleManager software. That would not be a problem except that the software kept crashing with the message "AudibleManager Application Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I was never able to play the audiobook. To their credit, audible refunded my money but only after I wasted hours trying to make it work. Again, the book is great, but be aware that audible downloads may not play.

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Summary: Runs deep
Comment: This book, along with a clutch of mass-market WW II paperbacks, has sat in a corner for 8 years or so. I picked it up last Saturday and read it in a day. A real page turner with dense factual content and hair-raising stories. In the tradition of the best non-fiction, the truth here is stranger and more compelling than fiction. Hats off to the submariners -- I hope they're still out there, quietly ruining bad guys' days.


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