The Silent Service (Mass Market Paperbound) (ISBN-13: 9780747238058)

One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence. John Parker's in-depth investigation is very much personality led with diaries from the early part of the century to substantial first-person testimony from survivors of wartime heroics (when many VCs were won).

Author: John Parker
ISBN-10: 0747238057
ISBN-13: 9780747238058
Publisher: Headline
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2002
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.30w x 1.20d