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The event that almost brought the Russian Revolution twelve years before its time.
Hailed as an important contribution both to history and to sea literature when first published in 1961, Richard Hough's book gives a dramatic blow-by-blow account of the June 1905 mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin. The revolt, immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein's famous motion picture, was considered by the Soviets a glorious moment in the people's fight against a tyrannical czarist government, but for others it was a sordid little rebellion over bad meat.
The Potemkin Mutiny is a balanced recounting of events, including the killing of many Potemkin officers and a civil uprising in Odessa. Quelled by the Cossacks who slaughtered thousands in the process, this book shows the protagonists not as symbols but as human beings reacting under powerful tensions.
'Hough is a good storyteller with a refreshing, breezy style' - The Wall Street Journal
'Hough is shrewd and subtle' - The Sunday Telegraph
Richard Hough, the distinguished naval historian, was the author of many acclaimed books in the field, including The Fleet That Had to Die, Admirals in Collision, The Great War at Sea: 1914-18, and The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-45. He was the biographer of Mountbatten, and his last biography, Captain James Cook, became a world bestseller.
Hailed as an important contribution both to history and to sea literature when first published in 1961, Richard Hough's book gives a dramatic blow-by-blow account of the June 1905 mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin. The revolt, immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein's famous motion picture, was considered by the Soviets a glorious moment in the people's fight against a tyrannical czarist government, but for others it was a sordid little rebellion over bad meat.
The Potemkin Mutiny is a balanced recounting of events, including the killing of many Potemkin officers and a civil uprising in Odessa. Quelled by the Cossacks who slaughtered thousands in the process, this book shows the protagonists not as symbols but as human beings reacting under powerful tensions.
Praise for Richard Hough:
'Hough is a good storyteller with a refreshing, breezy style' - The Wall Street Journal
'Hough is shrewd and subtle' - The Sunday Telegraph
Richard Hough, the distinguished naval historian, was the author of many acclaimed books in the field, including The Fleet That Had to Die, Admirals in Collision, The Great War at Sea: 1914-18, and The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-45. He was the biographer of Mountbatten, and his last biography, Captain James Cook, became a world bestseller.
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