The Last Sentry Valery Sablin

In 1975, a disillusioned Soviet Navy officer named Valery Sablin, intending to launch a revolution and overthrow the government, led a mutiny aboard the destroyer Storozhevoy (or Sentry). News of the mutiny was suppressed, but Young, an American naval officer studying at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, pieced together an account of it. A few years later, novelist Clancy came across Young's report in the basement of the U.S. Naval Academy library and used it as the foundation for the thriller that launched his career. Here, Young and Braden, a former Marine intelligence officer, provide a full account of the incident and the events that prompted it with the help of recently declassified KGB documents and Sablin family papers. With 16 pages of b&w photos and maps. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)