Cry from the Deep

A “superb account” of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation’s northern coast and its repercussions ( Publishers Weekly ). On 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 Kursk . 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 preside