A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
de Moore, Robert
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- First
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- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679312021
- ISBN 13
- 9780679312024
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U.S.A.: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gift inscription on flypage. DJ not price clipped book is in excellent condition, covers are black/gold.Tight copy.In August 2000, explosions rocked the Russian nuclear submarine the Kursk, killing most crewmembers instantly and leaving the sub stranded in the Barents Sea where the remaining personnel would also soon perish. When the story was reported worldwide, it was met with considerably more questions than answers: What caused the explosion? Could the men be rescued? And why was the Russian military being so secretive about the incident? Journalist Robert Moore has gathered extensive information regarding the incident to answer those and numerous other questions in this exhaustive account. Moore pieces together a harrowing narrative of the events leading to the two on-board explosions that instantly killed 88 men while sparing, temporarily, 23 others. Soon, the story spreads beyond the Arctic Circle as the book offers tales of frightened families searching for information, international rescue teams attempting to reach the crew in time, a Russian government whose disorganization or obfuscation may have hampered those efforts, and American submarine crews poised just outside Russian waters. Where the book succeeds most is in the details: the fact that the rubber-wrapped Kursk was nearly impossible to detect on sonar, the speculation that the tapping noises often reported may have been tales invented by the Northern Fleet to add urgency to the rescue efforts, and the transcripts of notes left by the surviving crew members after the explosions had already occurred. --John Moe
Sinopsis
Robert Moore is an award-winning TV journalist who was ITN’s Moscow correspondent during the collapse of the Soviet Union, and subsequently served as their Middle East correspondent. Since 1997, he has been their foreign affairs editor, covering a wide range of international stories, including wars in Chechnya, Kosovo and Sierra Leone. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Título
- A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
- Autor
- Moore, Robert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679312021
- ISBN 13
- 9780679312024
- Editorial
- Random House of Canada Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Páginas
- 288
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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