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Jerome Preisler & Kenneth Sewell
All Hands Down [EPUB ebook]
The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion

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A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty yearswhat really happened to the USS Scorpion?May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode intothat the Soviets planned revenge for the mysterious sinking of a Russian sub two months beforeor that a traitor has been supplying the KGB with the US Navy’s top-secret codes. In this thrilling story that portray the human side of a naval tragedy that was officially denied for forty years, veteran submariner and bestselling author Kenneth Sewell chronicles the astounding true events behind the demise of the USS Scorpion.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781416564348 ● Publisher Simon & Schuster ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5342834 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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