The Silent Service: The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine Heroes
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Silent Service: The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine Heroes
By (Author) John Parker
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
1st August 1987
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Biography: philosophy and social sciences
General and world history
Second World War
Modern warfare
359.930941
Physical Properties
Paperback
416
Width 117mm, Height 177mm, Spine 26mm
253g
Description
One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray of 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 modern-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence. The author'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 Bio
John Parker, a journalist and former Fleet Street editor, has undertaken many investigative projects in his writing career with topics ranging from the Mafia to Northern Ireland.
