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汤姆·克兰西的成名作《猎杀红十月号》讲述的是一艘苏联核潜艇叛逃至西方的故事。而《最后的警戒》则向人们揭示了一段被尘封已久的真实往事，也是启发克兰西撰写《猎》的灵感来源。

1975年，驻泊在拉脱维亚首都里加的苏联北海舰队“警戒”号护卫舰（为“风暴海燕”级大型反潜护卫舰，北约代号“克里瓦克”级）未经司令部允许，擅自启锚，离开拉脱维亚首都里加附近的达乌加维河湾驻泊地，向连接里加湾和波罗的海的伊尔宾斯基海峡方向驶去。

从该舰上成功逃出的一名军官游回里加海军基地汇报了情况，原来是“警戒”号上发生了暴乱，负责政治工作的副舰长（相当于政委）维克多·萨布林海军少校，指挥一伙同谋，逮捕了舰长，制服了军官，武装夺取战舰，准备叛逃至瑞典。

波罗的海舰队护卫舰、导弹舰、海军航空兵及部署在波罗的海地区的空军前线轰炸航空兵，紧急出动，从空中和海上两路拦截、追杀叛逃的军舰，一场惊心动魄的海空联合拦截和追杀行动就此展开。。。。。

萨布林为何要叛变？仓促应战的苏联海空军能否控制住局面？本书将为您详尽解开。 [1] 

For those who don’t recall, Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October told the story of a vessel of the Soviet navy, under the old communist regime, that tried to defect to the West. The Last Sentry provides readers the true story behind Clancy’s premise by recording events that occurred aboard the Storozhevoy, a Krivak Frigate that tried to change the old Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, as it sailed from Riga in Latvia, then a Soviet satellite state in the Baltic. Some individuals in the Soviet KGB, Communist Party, and the West believed that the ship and its crew attempted to defect to Sweden, but the truth, as always, is a bit more complex.

In 1975 the ship’s political officer, Valery Sablin, the third-ranking officer in the Soviet naval hierarchy at the time, had become so disillusioned with the party and Premier Leonid Brezhnev in particular that he decided to launch a revolution from within by sailing the Storozhevoy into the Baltic and broadcasting a manifesto to persuade the Soviet populace to overthrow or change the regime. As authors Gregory Young and Nate Braden describe quite clearly, he was influenced by the revolutionary behavior of Russian naval officers who mutinied in 1905 after the disasters of the Russo-Japanese War. The most remarkable part of the story is that a political officer—not one of the other ship officers—decided to mutiny. During the takeover, a select group of enlisted and warrant officers locked up the captain and tried to sail out of Riga harbor, into the Baltic, and then on to Leningrad. Most Western readers will be disappointed to learn that Sablin had to no intention of going to Sweden but that he wished to instigate radical change in the Soviet Union by overthrowing Brezhnev. The KGB executed him for his role in the mutiny.

Young, a Naval Postgraduate School student, managed to unearth the facts of these events with the help of recently released Soviet-period KGB documents. Up to that time, most of the details of the mutiny had remained unknown, and reports of the incident in the open press were wrong. So-called experts could only guess at what had happened. Even the Swedish intelligence service, which possessed excellent intercept facilities, could not pierce the fog surrounding the events.

Unfortunately, The Last Sentry does not provide sufficient information about Soviet life during the Brezhnev years, which would allow readers to understand the circumstances in which Sablin reached his difficult and heroic decision. Nevertheless, historians and analysts should find this Cold War text useful to their reevaluations as more facts about that era emerge. And, of course, it is a must-read for aficionados of Tom Clancy.

Capt Gilles Van Nederveen, USAF, Retired

Fairfax, Virginia

目录

The Parade

The Commissar

The Service

The Mutiny

The Aftermath

The Suppression