Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 284pp, b/w illustrations, 1 fold-out diagram.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

Early history 1901-1904; the opening of the door 1904-1914; submarines in the First World War 1914-1918; the inter-war period: design and experiment 1919-1938; submarines in the Second World War 1939-1945; how a conventional submarine works; some questions answered about submarines; the building and support of conventional submarines; accident, escape and salvage: the first fifty years; the post war period 1945-1958. The Nuclear Age: the advance; nuclear submarine shore support; the submarines; HMS Dolphin; strategy.