Tony Roberts
Author
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater lives--not even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the tapping of undersea Soviet telephone cables, the stealing of Soviet weapons, the tragic collisions of enemy submarines. They tell of medals awarded in secret and deaths disguised with disinformation....
Author
Language
English
Description
No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, thirty years ago. It tells...
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
In the American colony of North Carolina, Claire and Jamie work to find a way to return to Scotland with Fergus, Marsali, and Young Ian. They visit the plantation of Jamie's aunt Jocasta Cameron, and witness slavery firsthand. Claire and Jamie decide to leave and make a new life for themselves elsewhere, and claim a piece of land they call Fraser's Ridge. On their new land, tensions rise with the local Cherokees. Jamie reunites with Murtagh, who is...