Питер Хюхтаузен: Американдық теңізші және жазушы өмірі мен қызметі

American novelist

Peter Anthony Huchthausen (September 25, 1939 – July 11, 2008 in Amfreville, Manche, France) was a Captain in the United States Navy and the author of several maritime books.

The son of the late Chaplain (Colonel) and Mrs. Walther A. Huchthausen, Peter graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy in 1957 and from the United States Naval Academy in 1962. Huchthausen served as a line officer in the destroyer USS Blandy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, enforcing the naval blockade and verifying the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. He then served two combat tours of duty during Vietnam War, commanding a patrol boat and unit of ten river patrol boats in combat on the Mekong River with the United States Navy's Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta. He returned to Vietnam as Chief Engineer in the destroyer USS Orleck, which provided naval gunfire support to Army and Marine forces operations along the Vietnam coast. Transferring to Naval Intelligence, he became a Soviet naval submarine analyst and served in anti submarine warfare positions on the staffs of Commander, U. S. Naval Forces, Europe, the United States First Fleet, The United States Third Fleet, and the Commander in Chief, Pacific Command. Later, he became the senior American naval attaché in Yugoslavia and Romania. Afterward, he became the chief of attaché and human intelligence collection operations in Western Europe for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Huchthausen served for three years in Moscow as the senior U. S. Naval Attaché to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Echoes of the Mekong, by Peter A. Huchthausen and Nguyen Thi Lung. (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co. of America, 1996). Hostile waters, by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin, and R. Alan White (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide and became an HBO movie of the same name. Frye Island: Maine's newest town a history, 1748 1998, by Peter A. Huchthausen; illustrated by Christa H. Mueller. (Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1998)
K 19: the widowmaker: the secret story of the Soviet nuclear submarine , (Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Books, 2002), also became a movie by the same name starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. October Fury. (Hoboken, N. J.: J. Wiley & Sons, 2002, )
America's splendid little wars : a short history of U. S. military engagements, 1975 2000. (New York: Viking, 2003)
Shadow voyage: the extraordinary wartime escape of the legendary Bremen. (Hoboken, N. J.: J. Wiley & Sons, 2005), a story about the escape of the German passenger liner Bremen during the early months of World War II. Hide and seek: the untold story of Cold War espionage at sea, by Peter A. Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon Duplaix. (Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, 2008). Finding God in the shadows: stories from the battlefield of life, by Marsha Hansen and Peter A. Huchthausen. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 2008).