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Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired The Hunt For Red October | 
 enlarge | Authors: Boris Gindin, David Hagberg
Publisher: Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 86372
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0765313502
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.1334
EAN: 9780765313508
ASIN: 0765313502
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international notoriety. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The Hunt for Red October actually happened, and Boris Gindin lived through every minute of it. After decades of silence and fear, Gindin has finally come forward to tell the entire story of the mutiny aboard the FFG Storozhevoy, the real-life Red October. It was the fall of 1975, and the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were climbing. It seemed the two nations were headed for thermonuclear war, and it was that fear that caused most of the crewman of the FFG Storozhevoy to mutiny. Their goal was to send a message to the Soviet people that the Communist government was corrupt and major changes were needed. That message never reached a single person. Within hours the orders came from on high to destroy the Storozhevoy and its crew members. And this would have happened if it weren't for Gindin and few others whose heroism saved many lives. Now, with the help of USA Today bestselling author David Hagberg, Gindin relives every minute of that harrowing event. From the danger aboard the ship to the threats of death from the KGB to the fear that forced him to flee the Soviet Union for the United States, Mutiny reveals the real-life story behind The Hunt for Red October and offers an eye-opening look at the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
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 exciting look at the real events of the The Hunt for Red October May 14, 2008
Harriet Klausner
10 out of 20 found this review helpful
In November 1975, Soviet anti-nuclear submarine frigate FFG Storozhevoy is docked in Riga, Latvia for normal maintenance and repair after six months at sea. Third in command Captain Valery Sablin is appalled by the wide corruption of leading Brezhnev officials and much of the bureaucracy overrun by party hacks including Soviet navy brass. He sees fat cats taking shortcuts with the lives of sailors to pocket money and obtains the best items for themselves and their family. Outraged as only a true believer can be, the Marxist/Leninist fundamentalist decides to take control of the vessel and sail to Leningrad where he would broadcast to the people to overthrown the corrupted. All went well with his plan until the Kremlin learned what he was doing and interceded.
This is the real events of the Soviet naval mutiny that led to the novel and movie The Hunt for Red October as related to novelist David Hagberg by then twenty-four years old Senior Lieutenant Gindin, who was part of the crew. The back ground of naval life in the totalitarian superpower is fascinating and well written while setting the stage for the exciting look at the events that happened in late 1975. Although nonfiction and told mostly by the viewpoint of Mr. Gindin though much supported by documentation, Mutiny is a tense thriller that grips readers from start to finish even with knowing the outcome.
Harriet Klausner
 Third rate fiction July 1, 2008
Master Chief Submarines (Alexandria, VA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for 'Mutiny' but ended up extremely disappointed. This may be explained as it's the author's first foray into non-fiction. He seems to rely on a single authoritative source -- LT Gindin, but he fantasizes the dialogue in the patrol and attack aircraft cockpits, in the Kremlin, and on the bridge of the Storozhevoy. Indeed, there were times when I though I was reading the movie script for 'Hunt for Red October;' e.g., James Earl Jones, 'Mother of God!,' Defense Minister Grechko, 'Dear God!' Did the author interview any of these pilots or the surviving crew members? If so, it would have been useful to document that in the acknowledgments.
With regard to credible sources; Wikipedia? My kids are in high school and they are not allowed to use Wikipedia. I hammer the undergraduates I teach by telling them they will get a failing grade if they cite Wikipedia or and other dubious on-line source in a term paper. How did this author get published?
In early 1976 I was at sea in a submarine whe I heard the story of the Storozhevoy. It's an important story that deserves much better treatment. For Mr. Hagberg, please stick with fiction, you're good at that.
 A good read, but a few factual issues June 9, 2008
Glenn (California)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
As advertised, this book is a suspense-filled thriller. David Hagberg's fiction skills are clearly evident. But as for non-fiction, he must be clairvoyant in his ability to discern the thoughts of those people who neither he nor his co-author either inteviewed or knew. The inner thoughts of CPSU and Soviet Naval leaders in Moscow provide a good story, but I am not sure that they are accurate.
Small details are in error, but most are insignificant and would probably only be known to a Soviet Naval expert. However, His co-author should be just that expert. For example, the book details that the destroyer was parked next to an Alpha class submarine in Riga, the day of the mutiny in 1975. The first Alpha was cut in half in 1974; the second in the class did not appear until 1979. In the definitive account of the mutiny, "The Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired the Hunt for Red October", the adjacent sub was from the Foxtrot class.
The book does provide an interesting insight in to one man's view of the mutiny and the crew of the mutinous ship, but since he was incarcerated during most of the mutiny, even his account is often less than eyewitness. Buy the book, judge for yourself.
Ineresting, but ... June 28, 2008
Bruce Trinque (Amston, CT United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Mutiny" by David Hagberg and Boris Gindin is the story of the real-life mutiny aboard the Soviet naval vessel Storoshevoy in 1975, an incident that sparked the creation of Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October".
Gildin himself was an officer aboard the Storoshevoy, held prisoner by the mutineers, so a substantial portion of the book can be told from an eyewitness perspective, but nonetheless the story seemed to me to somehow lack the immediacy I would expect. For one thing, the lack of photographs and maps and ship's plans proves something of an obstacle in better envisioning what went on. And discussion of the aftermath of the failed mutiny is curiously lacking in detais. I was left feeling that I had read only half a story.
After 32 years the truth is told! August 10, 2008
Norm Applegate (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The true events that inspired Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October!
"Mutiny"
A Cold War Thriller
This was David's first venture into the non-fiction world, with all the action, drama and intrigue it reads like one of his bestselling novels. With his Air Force background and understanding of terrorism, David Hagberg captured the history, frustrations and naval culture of the Soviet Union, and the events of it's officers leading up to the cold war mutiny.
Aboard the antisubmarine warship the FFG Storozhevoy in the fall of 1975, Mutiny is a firsthand account that anyone interested in the Soviet system or life aboard one of its ships should read. Written with senior lieutenant Boris Gindin whose offering is insightful, heartwarming, and heroic, triggers questions of how his life in the USA compares to his years in the Soviet Union.
The story itself, is the life of Boris Gindin who at the age of seventeen in 1967, enters the St. Petersburg Military Engineering Academy to build a career in the soviet navy, and rises through the ranks to become a senior officer when most of the crew of the Storozhevoy mutiny. Life in Russia is bleak, harsh and difficult, but Hagberg and Gindin bring it to life as they build the the events of this important story. There is a rewarding account of the most famous mutiny in naval history aboard the HMS Bounty in 1789, where David summarizes the events concisely in just a few pages.
Confined belowdeck, the captain, officers and Gindin survive the attack of the soviet navy and air force who are ordered to hunt down and kill the warship. In the end the KGB execute the officer who was behind the mutiny, arrest everyone, even the officers who opposed the mutiny, and are forced to swear secrecy on pain of death if they told their story.
Thirty-two years later Boris Gindin and David Hagberg tell the truth, the record has been set straight.
Norman Applegate
author of Into the Spell
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