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As the American Eagle and the Russian Bear were noisily and publicly confronting each other's ideology on the surface of the earth, a silent and very dangerous game was being played beneath the waves. This cat and mouse game was more like the blind mice, tapping their way through the ocean depths with the white canes of sonar. Collisions were bound to happen.

For this reviewer raised on torpedo launching war movies like "Run Silent/Run Deep" and the German "Das Boot", it required a bit of mental gear-shifting to understand that the major use of the subs was for spying and intelligence gathering. A U-2 spy plane shot out of the skies over Russia made for world headlines. A secret sinking of a secret spy sub in the silent depths usually remained known only to God, and personnel sworn to secrecy. How many were lost, where, and how? Even today, many a surviving family member, both American and Russian, peer over trackless oceans and a sea of classified files and are unable to plumb those depths for answers.

This book in rather engagingly written, reading more like a spy novel than a factual document. The suspense, the terror, the triumphs and tragedies, remind one of the great sacrifices made for national defense. Much is owed these men who go down to the sea, go down under the sea, that we above may breath more freely.
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What is happening, but, you really don't want to know. If you have ever had military family, a good read. Where's the movie?

Much of these true life escapades should be an a Tom Clancy novel. I have purchased 3 copies of this book to give to friends.

This book as a perfect example of espionage history. Well laid out, stories are well researched and portrayed in a manner that is honorous to all. Great job!!

Ten years after publication, this book doesn't stand up to other books on the topic. It's poorly researched, cleaves to the government line, and relies too heavily on the work of other journalists. After the first 100 pages, I skimmed the rest of the chapters. Mutual respect for the dead moves the book. Yet answers are incomplete. The living deserve the respect of the governments that still hold so many of the secrets behind the events described in this book.

This book is a real eye opener. If you are interested in military books, particularly NAVY material, this is a must read. I have family in the NAVY and they'll tell you, this is the real deal. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Through some weird twist of fate, these reviews are appearing as though they relate to a 16-page booklet that I wrote in 1991 entitled "Treasures: Splendid Survivors of the Golden Gate International Exposition," which has as its subject the fate of a group of sculptures and a terra cotta fountain which are the sole free-standing remainders of the art on Treasure Island from the world's fair held there in 1939-1940.

Hmmm . . . I really ought to re-publish it and see if anyone would buy it from Amazon.

Having participated in the submarine service during the Cold War in the 1960's, I found this to be an accurate and excellent accounting of many of the things we experienced. This is a well researched and book of experiences that I didn't think I would ever see published in my lifetime.

This "history" of US submarine espionage since World War II reads more like a string of anecdotes and episodes. The stories are fascinating and a few of them are even historically important, but I'm not sure this is an "important" book as the New York Times Book Review is quoted on a cover blurb.

Yet it is fun to read, holds your interest, and does present some new material not publicly documented elsewhere. For example, a central portion of the book is about the undersea cable tapping of Russian military telecommunications that began in the 70s and continued through the early 90s. These were buried cables visited just off the the Northern and far Eastern coasts of Russia where US subs anchored over the cable, placed taps on the line, and came back months later to collect the taps and tapes and leave new ones.

The book is a great even if parts are inaccurate or fictionalized (I have no way of knowing for sure, but I would be surprised if everything happened exactly as presented. Have you ever experienced an event and then read an account of the same event in the newspaper?).
My complain is with audible.com. I thought I could download the book instead of buying the CDs or cassettes. I wanted to listen to it as I was exercising or travelling. I thought the file would be MP3, WMA, or something I could transfer to my MP3 player. No, the file is in a proprietary format (.aa) that requires the AudibleManager software. That would not be a problem except that the software kept crashing with the message "AudibleManager Application Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I was never able to play the audiobook. To their credit, audible refunded my money but only after I wasted hours trying to make it work. Again, the book is great, but be aware that audible downloads may not play.

This book, along with a clutch of mass-market WW II paperbacks, has sat in a corner for 8 years or so. I picked it up last Saturday and read it in a day. A real page turner with dense factual content and hair-raising stories. In the tradition of the best non-fiction, the truth here is stranger and more compelling than fiction. Hats off to the submariners -- I hope they're still out there, quietly ruining bad guys' days.