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Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
Woodman, Richard; Conley, Dan
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Description for Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
hardcover. The intimate and hitherto untold story of undersea confrontation with the Soviet navy. Includes gripping first-hand account Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVU; 3JJPN; BM; HBTW; HBWS; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 233 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear, with light wear to dust jacket
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities. Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; ... Read more
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities. Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seaforth Publishing U.K.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848327696
SKU
KMO0000375
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Woodman, Richard; Conley, Dan
CAPTAIN DAN CONLEY's experience in conventional and nuclear-powered submarines is the core this account. He then become the MOD's Director of targeting for Trident and was a leading policy-maker developing nuclear weapons strategy in the 1990s. CAPTAIN RICHARD WOODMAN is a distinguished maritime historian and author.
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