Buy this book on-line WOODMAN**, RICHARD & CONLEY, DAN: : COLD WAR COMMAND: THE DRAMATIC STORY OF A NUCLEAR SUBMARINERUK.BARNSLEY,S. YORKS.Seaforth Publishing/Pen & Sword Books Ltd.,2014. ISBN 9781848327696.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with red,grey and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xvpp+1-280pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, foreword by Admiral the Lord Boyce,KG,GCB, OBE,DL,a prologue,an introduction,19 chapters and an epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp144/45,a glossary and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
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.
Captains Richard Woodman and Dan Conley take the reader through the latter's early career in diesel submarines,prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; they describe the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons development and deliver many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21stC.In command of the hunter-killer submarines 'Courageous' and 'Valiant' in the 1980s,Conley achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear missile system,and divulges hitherto unrevealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period.
This gripping and evocative narrative delivers the reader onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean,and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.
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