Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union,   ISBN:9780312380236

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i have now read a few books on the subject. this book i would consider a good jump into the subject of cold war submarine espionage. Sadly, the book lacked the more detailed information i imagined. The book also seemed ultimately torn between a story and a detailed account. Personally i think the author could have meshed the two better or chose one over the other.
That being said the author's account does nothing to take away from the daring missions and importance. he also adequately describes the emotions of the individuals along with the risks involved in such an undertaking. for persons interested in an easy/interesting account of a submarine's deployment i recommend.

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I also served on a 637 class attack submarine and agree with most of the sentiments of the prior reviews. I did find the book fun to read and very informative. It created a great source of memories for something I experienced almost 40 years ago as a junior nuclear trained officer. I feel that the author did a great job of surmising what was happening on the Russian side of the equation. This was something we did almost everyday while on patrol. I am giving this book to my friends who really want to know what we did back in the day . As the former CO said, it wasn't flashy but it was an interesting job. I am very happy that I purchased this book. The author did a nice job.

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Brought back allot of memories from my days on the USS U.S. Grant SSBN 631.

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I am a retired submarine commander. This book is technically accurate, but not very thrilling reading. (Our patrols were not very thrilling most of the time, either.)

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Well-written and mostly accurate portrayal of intelligence-gathering submarines during the cold war, especiallly the STURGEON (SSN-637) class. Some factual errors about submarine technology (e.g., erroneously called 1970s sattelite navigation GPS, which was not in use until the 1990s and totally missed the use of CO2 scrubbers).