Cry from the Deep

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"With its excruciating tension and pure riarrative drive, this book belorigs on a shelf with The Terrible Hours, Blind Man's Bluff, and other bracing classics of the submarine genre. But Cry from the Deep is much more than another U-boat tale. Ramsey Flynn shows us, through the periscope of this unforgettable tragedy, how a fitful modern Russia still struggles to surface from the turbid depths of the Soviet past." -HAMPTON SIDES, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Americorio: Dispatches from the New Frontier and winner of the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction "A page-turning account of a military disaster and a chilling political drama that's all the more shocking because it's true." -HOWARD BLUM, bestselling author of The Eve ofDestruction and The Brigode "Cry from the Deep is just that-a chilling story of men fallen out of reach and beyond hope. Ramsey Flynn has written the fullest account of the Kursk tragedy to date." -SHERRY SONTAG, coauthor of the bestselling Blind Man's... Tovább

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"With its excruciating tension and pure riarrative drive, this book belorigs on a shelf with The Terrible Hours, Blind Man's Bluff, and other bracing classics of the submarine genre. But Cry from the Deep is much more than another U-boat tale. Ramsey Flynn shows us, through the periscope of this unforgettable tragedy, how a fitful modern Russia still struggles to surface from the turbid depths of the Soviet past." -HAMPTON SIDES, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Americorio: Dispatches from the New Frontier and winner of the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction "A page-turning account of a military disaster and a chilling political drama that's all the more shocking because it's true." -HOWARD BLUM, bestselling author of The Eve ofDestruction and The Brigode "Cry from the Deep is just that-a chilling story of men fallen out of reach and beyond hope. Ramsey Flynn has written the fullest account of the Kursk tragedy to date." -SHERRY SONTAG, coauthor of the bestselling Blind Man's Bluff "This is a taut account of a naval disaster. In the sinking of a submarine, Ramsey Flynn alsó has found a harrowíng metaphor for the difficult political transition in the former Soviet Union, describing a catastrophe caused by ideological rust and exacerbated by corrosive inaction and deceit." -JERE LONGMAN, author of the bestseller Among theHeroes: United Flight 93 ond the Passengers and Crew Who Foughr Back Vissza