{"product_id":"9780066211718","title":"Cry from the Deep","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an enormous explosion sank Russia's most prized nuclear submarine, the \u003cem\u003eKursk\u003c\/em\u003e. When Vladmir Putin's men failed to rescue the 118 young submariners trapped under the icy Barents Sea and refused timely help from \"foreigners\" for four days, the Russian president assured his angry nation that all the men had died within minutes of the blasts. An earlier rescue would not have changed anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo months later, recovery divers brought up the dead submarine's first twelve bodies, one of which had a soggy note clinging to the burned remnants of his breast pocket. Addressed to his wife, it read:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are twenty-three of us here ... None of us can get to the surface. Let's hope someone will read this. Don't despair. -- Kolesnikov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"Kolesnikov Note\" became the cry from the depths of Russia's tormented soul, as an anguished people confronted their government about what matters more -- guarding secrets and pride or protecting human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat were Russian officials thinking when they waited forty-eight hours to acknowledge that their most treasured submarine was in trouble? Why did they track the desperate tapping noises that seemed to be coming from the sub without sending an international SOS?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a world community still mystified by deadly Russian deceits surrounding the \u003cem\u003eKursk\u003c\/em\u003e submarine disaster, \u003cem\u003eCry from the Deep\u003c\/em\u003e solves the riddles once and for all. What emerges from Flynn's exhaustive reporting is the definitive account of this pivotal moment in Russia's rocky emergence into the community of free nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns thrilling, heart-wrenching, and absorbing, \u003cem\u003eCry from the Deep\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the truths behind an event that riveted the world, devastated and enraged the Russian people, and ultimately defined a new era of Russian politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramsey Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50627413672096,"sku":"9780066211718","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5e49b2d0-243f-4f8a-be4b-eebd1a017efc.jpg?v=1736145693","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780066211718","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}