Word: storozhevoy
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...native Baltimore. Severe myopia kept him from serving in the Viet Nam War, and the need to earn a living made him put his literary ambitions aside for the insurance business. The writing urge resurfaced in 1976 when Clancy read about a mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy. The ship's political officer and a group of enlisted men had attempted to defect to Sweden, and most of them had been killed. "That mutiny rattled around in my head for years," Clancy recalls. Eventually the frigate was imagined as a submarine, and the novel began to take shape. He completed...
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