The Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October
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Providing inspiration for Tom Clancys The Hunt for Red October the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet government. Valery Sablin a brilliant young political officer seized control of the ship by convincing half the officers and all of the sailors to sail to Leningrad where they would launch a new Russian Revolution. Suppressed in the Soviet Union for fifteen years Young (the first American to uncover the mutiny twenty years ago) and Braden finally tell the untold story relying on recently declassified KGB documents as well as the Sablin familys papers. It is a gripping account of a disillusioned idealist forced to make the agonizing choice between working within or destroying the system he is sworn to protect.
