World War II * Detailed and entertaining combat history * Draws on the letters and papers of crew members `A fine adventure story and well told. Mr. Sasgen has added another worthy chapter to the history of a too long '"silent service".' - Submarine Review `A thoroughly researched book . . .
Berlin, November 1945. Yuri Nosenko, a Russian army officer awaiting execution for a crime he didn't commit, is released from an NKVD prison and sent to Berlin with orders to find and kill Heinrich Müller, head of Gestapo. Müller has top secret Soviet documents that prove Joseph Stalin ordered the Katyn Forest Massacre of 15, 000 Polish officers. He aims to swap them for immunity from prosecution as a war criminal, and for sanctuary in the Wes...
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War-the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical decisions-taking us closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before.
Sasgen vividly recounts the pulsating drama of the Hellcats." - "Naval History"
In 1945, American sub force commanders believed that if the Japanese merchant fleet was sunk, the enemy would be forced to surrender. The problem: the ships were protected in the Sea of Japan by a barrier of deadly minefields.
Here, Peter Sasgen tells the gripping story of Operation Barney, a daunting mission in which nine submarines, nicknamed Hellcats, were tas...
The USS Rasher had an extraordinary record in World War II: she sank 18 enemy ships and destroyed 99, 901 tons - the second highest tonnage of the war. Author Peter Sasgen is the son of a Rasher crew member, and from his father's perspective he follows the sub from the builder's way through eight action-packed patrols to war's end.
This is the untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine. b&w, photo insert.
Drawing on original documents and the personal letters of one brave commander, Sasgen crafts a classic naval tale of the heroic submariners and one of World War II's most ambitious and dangerous missions.
