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The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945

Autor James Jinks, Peter Hennessy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2016
'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented co-operation from the Service itself and privileged access to documents and personnel,The Silent Deepis the first authoritative history of the Submarine Service from the end of the Second World War to the present. It gives the most complete account yet published of the development of Britain's submarine fleet, its capabilities, its weapons, its infrastructure, its operations and above all - from the testimony of many submariners and the first-hand witness of the authors - what life is like on board for the denizens of the silent deep.
Dramatic episodes are revealed for the first time: how HMSWarspitegathered intelligence against the Soviet Navy's latest ballistic-missile-carrying submarine in the late 1960s; how HMSSovereignmade what is probably the longest-ever trail of a Soviet (or Russian) submarine in 1978; how HMSTrafalgarfollowed an exceptionally quiet Soviet 'Victor III', probably commanded by a Captain known as 'the Prince of Darkness', in 1986. It also includes the first full account of submarine activities during the Falklands War. But it was not all victories: confrontations with Soviet submarines led to collisions, and the extent of losses to UK and NATO submarine technology from Cold War spy scandals are also made more plain here than ever before.
In 1990 the Cold War ended - but not for the Submarine Service. Since June 1969, it has been the last line of national defence, with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent. The story from Polaris to Trident - and now 'Successor' - is a central theme of the book. In the year that it is published, Russian submarines have once again been detected off the UK's shores. As Britain comes to decide whether to renew its submarine-carried nuclear deterrent,The Silent Deepprovides an essential historical perspective.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241959480
ISBN-10: 0241959489
Pagini: 864
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Peter Hennessy (Author)
Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author ofNever Again: Britain 1945-51(winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), the bestsellingThe Prime MinisterandTheSecret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010.He was made an independent crossbench life peer in 2010.

James Jinks (Author)
James Jinks completed his PhD under Peter Hennessy at Queen Mary. His first book was50 Years of the Polaris Sales Agreement, commissioned by Her Majesty's Government to mark 50 years of Polaris. He is now at work onA Very British Bomb, a history of the British nuclear deterrent.


Recenzii

A tour de force, a valuable resource for naval historians and future generations to wonder at. And I can't help hoping that our current leaders will make themselves aware of some vitally significant issues that it raises.
The lay reader cannot fail to be absorbed by its dramatic tales of cat-and-mouse skirmishes with Soviet hunter-killer submarines, embarrassing spy scandals and lucid accounts of the Falklands War - all enlivened with first-hand testimony from the submariners themselves.