Submarines By Antony Preston
Submarines By Antony Preston
Hardcover
ISBN 086124043X
Publisher: Bison Books Ltd 1982
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust
Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
On a September night in 1776 Ezra Lee pedalled underwater in the Turtle, the first practical war-time submarine to attack a British warship. The tide was stronger than he expected and he had to work furiously to avoid being swept past his target. More than two hundred years later the first Trident submarine nearly four stories high and carrying nuclear warheads aimed a world away, was launched in New London. It had no trouble with the tides. Submarines is a carefully researched and entertaining written account of the role of this remarkable craft in military and scientific history.