The Illustrated History of the Submarine

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974

The story of submarines is much more than a record of a mode of warfare. It is the chronicle of brave and visionary men who risked their lives and their fortunes to prove `the impossible,'' to demonstrate that ships could move through the water as well as on the water. And, paradoxically, this most formidable of weapons has now emerged in an unlikely role. The nuclear submarine, armed with missiles and patrolling the seas undetected, is the ultimate deterrent to global war...