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John Parker - Silent Service - 9780747238058 - KSS0001392
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Silent Service

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Description for Silent Service Paperback. An in-depth investigation into the history and exploits of the Royal Navy Submarine Service based on first-hand accounts Num Pages: 416 pages, 16pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; HBG; HBLW3; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2002
Publisher
Headline
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747238058
SKU
KSS0001392
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About John Parker
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.

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