The Eagle Mutiny

by Richard Linnett and Roberto Loiederman

The dramatic story of a 1970 mutiny on an American tramp steamer transporting napalm to the Vietnam War. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557505225
• ISBN13: 9781557505224
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

"WE NOW CONTROL THIS SHIP."

"The Eagle Mutiny" by Richard Linnett and Roberto Loiederman is perhaps, the finest and most superb sample of investigative journalism, historical research, and story telling that I have ever read. It is a story that surely equals if, not surpasses "Mutiny on the Bounty" , "Kane Mutiny", or... any other Mutiny! "The Eagle Mutiny" is the very real life story of two merchant seaman, Clyde McKay, and Alvin Glatkowski. These two individuals are merchant seaman on the merchant ship, "S.S. Columbia Eagle" which sets sail for Vietnam with a hull full of napalm bombs under contract for the U.S. Air Force. Glatkowski and McKay are both disenchanted with the Vietnam war effort and suddenly see themselves as self-ordained revolutionaries. They decide to mutiny, and subsequently hijack the ship making it's captain change course to Cambodia. Their dreams of being paraded through Hanoi as "the peoples heros" are soon deluged with hard core reality. The on-going story and eventual fate of these two men is better than any fictional story you might want to read. A superb read and an unbelievalbe story! Buy the book, you won't be sorry!!!

The Eagle Has Landed

Roberto Loiederman and Richard Linnett take the reader on a fascinating voyage into a little-known chapter of the Vietnam era. Meticulously researched, the authors manage to pump prose into this account of an armed mutiny aboard an American ship carrying napalm. A former merchant marine, Loiederman lends authenticity and precision grounding to this sea-going narrative. Here is a rare opportunity to get a glimpse into the mind of a mutineer. Move over Bounty - the Eagle has landed!

In Our Lives

Thirty-one years ago was way, way back! Another century. Yet Linnett and Loiederman recreate the intensity and frenzy of that era and make it wholly coherent and contemporary. This fresh, comprehensive, recall reveals a turbulent Vietnam era that is both exotic and accessible.A fantastic story--incredibly true though it reads like a thriller movie--this mutiny not only happened as described, but becomes a metaphor for the political and social transition that color an entire generation. And like Melville, Conrad, London, Nordhoff and Hall, Wauk and O'Brian, Linnett and Loiederman make of their ship, and it's mutiny, a floating cosmos, where the rules are both observed and bent. Where too, morality is debated and diverted. We are given two young men coming of age in the late sixties. While both wind up as merchant seamen, Clyde slips in from a life of adventure and twilight while Alvin pushes on from the mainstream. The authors bring those hyperbolic days with their hyperbolic people alive in the same way Clyde and Alvin found them vivid and attractive. And the Columbia Eagle becomes their crucible as the world and the war plunges forward. The powers play the grand game and, in isolation, the mutineers carry out their plot, ignorant and unaffected. When they finally emerge with the ship and its cargo of napalm in Cambodian waters, players are about to change sides on them and their act of protest is swallowed up in the upheaval, the coup that deposed Sihanouk three days after their arrival.What follows is a tale of increasing strangeness. The relationship between Alvin and Clyde deteriorates. Their capture, incarceration, escape, disappearance and reappearance are all traced. The inscrutability of both U. S. and Cambodian officials concerning the mutineers' fates, gives rise to conjecture. We're also given an overview of the huge cast of anti-war journalists, Thai and Cambodian peasants, soldiers of fortune, scholars and movement people who cross paths with the mutineers. These were dizzying, heady times, and the authors bring them to life with persuasive, exhaustive research.At last, we are left with a portrait of an age, a time and a set of personalities shaped by that time. Way back, when passions were enough.

An amazingly detailed account of mutiny and anti-war protest

Fascinating research by Roberto Loiederman and Richard Linnett into the little-known cases of a trio of American would-be revolutionaries, two of whom later escaped loose detention in Phnom Penh and set off to join the Khmer Rouge. After falling into the custody of Mam Sabun, a Khmer Rouge district chief, their fates become confused with those of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, the most famous of the American journalists who disappeared in Cambodia during the 1970-75 era of conflict. This work is a valuable addition to Tim Page's ongoing research to resolve the fates of those who remain "unaccounted-for" in Cambodia. Roberto Loiederman's stunningly detailed account of life aboard the the ship make this story one which anyone who loves the sea will find spellbinding. While this book deals with so-called collaborators, those outside the government who remain interested in the PW-MIA issue will find "The Eagle Mutiny" contains some information which provides new insights.