Nuke subs books, movies, both facts and fiction ?

[Dr.Sid]

I'd like to read something .. there is plenty of books on subsim.com but way too many. Where to start ? Let's sum good books about nuke subs, and let's sum all movies and shows too, both facts and fiction.

So I'll start with what I've read (and remembered) .. which will be very very basic I guess. The you let me find something new to read right :D ? I'm not interested about WW2 at the moment, for me that is different sport.

Tom Clancy:
-The hunt for the Red October
-Red storm rising
-Submarine

Alistair MacLean:
-Ice station Zebra

Movies:
-The hunt for the Red October
-That movie with Denzel Washington, written by Clancy, can't remember the name, about LA loosing antenna and redying for tactical nuke strike.
-Down Periscope (just a little about nukes but best subs movie ever).

Movies with marginal nuke sub scenes, usually very funny for someone with even basic insight about how things works on subs:
-Abyss (great underwater mood anyway)
-Godzilla

Eee .. you see .. can't remember much more at the moment.

[Marcantilan]

Movies: K-19 The Widowmaker

Books: Many by Peter Huchthausen, including K-19 & October Fury.

About Ice Station Zebra, the sub depicted isn´t a SSN (The "Tigerfish"), in fact is the USS Ronquil, a Balao class boat.

[OneShot]

That movie with Denzel Washington is "Crimson Tide" starring Gene Hackman as the CO of USS Alabama (an Ohio Class SSBN).

Other books ...
- SSN by Tom Clancy
- books by Patrick Robinson (like Nimitz Class)
- Blind Mans Bluff (forgot the author)

[goldorak]

History of nuclear subs :

Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001. :up:

[Skyrider68]

I'd like to read something .. The you let me find something new to read right :D ? I'm not interested about WW2 at the moment, for me that is different sport.

Tom Clancy:
-The hunt for the Red October
-Red storm rising
-Submarine

Alistair MacLean:
-Ice station Zebra



I read Dangerous Ground by Larry Bond about 6 months ago. Not the action-fest that was the climax of Hunt for Red October, but I still thought it was a decent book. You can still find paperback copies in bookstores.
:up:

[Dr.Sid]

Thanks for suggestions. Especially that Cold War Submarines looks good.

Btw. just watched Ice Station Zebra as a movie ! It even got 2 Oscar nomination in 68. So just in case somebody does not know (I didn't). Still like the book much more. But it was quite 'correct'. Especially I liked how they did loops and eights under the ice to map the shape of thin ice area to check if the the sub would fit there .. and how they did not explain that at all ! You just understood from the drawing what they do .. great.

[Bill Nichols]

I'm now reading "The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures". Excellent book on USS Nautilus's 1958 trip under the North Pole (and the events leading up to it), written by her CO. More detailed than "Nautilus 90 North", now that much of the story has been declassified 50-years after that achievement.

:ahoy:

[Dr.Sid]

Thanx Bill, that must be great reading. Btw. do I understand correctly that you served on Nautilus but later ?

[MR. Wood]

The movie Sub Down is a C- movie um Nimitz Class ,Kilo Class ,USS Seawolf by Patrick Robinson, um Red Storm Rising, Sweet missions by Bill.
More Books Rising Tide like blind mans bluff but from soviet side,Silent Steel book on the loss of USS Scorpion. Just to name a few

[Bill Nichols]

Thanx Bill, that must be great reading. Btw. do I understand correctly that you served on Nautilus but later ?

Yep, I was an officer with the last crew before decommissioning.

:arrgh!:

[Sailor Steve]

Alistair MacLean:
-Ice station Zebra
Also the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036516/

-Down Periscope (just a little about nukes but best subs movie ever).
Now that's a matter of taste.:p

[Monica Lewinsky]

I'd like to read something ... -Godzilla

Eee .. you see .. can't remember much more at the moment.

What about the BEST movie, EVER?

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster?

Great movie and exciting reading!

[RealJambo]

I found the book 'Big Red' an interesting read, factual, not fiction.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/antsmith/51R9RFSJSGL_SS500_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Red-Trident-Nuclear-Submarine/dp/0060194847

Also, 'Blind Mans Bluff' is a good read. In one chapter, it tells of how a Sub crew who were sent to a recording device for secret wire taps off Japan to recover the tapes (I think it was Japan) left a severed cows head next to the box on the seabed to scare the next dive crew who would visit - Nice!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/antsmith/9780060977719.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/dp/006097771X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223110800&sr=1-4