<p> The world came close to annihilation during the Cold War?a sobering fact known to few besides the warriors engaged in the forty-six-year conflict. In this riveting new history, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner W. Craig Reed provides a thrilling narrative of the tense underwater dramas and covert espionage operations that brought the United States and the former U.S.S.R. to the brink of nuclear war on several occasions. </p> <p> Riveting and eye-opening, <i>Red November</i> offers an intimate look at the lives of those who participated in our country?s longest, most expensive underwater war during one of the most dangerous eras in world history. Reed provides never-before-revealed details about some of the most dramatic episodes of the secret conflict?from the harrowing underwater cat-and-mouse chase in October 1962 that almost kicked off World War III to the desperate hours when the USS <i>Seawolf</i> sat grounded by engine failure at the bottom of the sea during an espionage mission in Soviet waters. </p>