Fighting under the Sea
London: Evens Brothers Limited, 1965. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 174, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. DJ has some wear and soiling. The Pioneers; Ocean-going Submarines; Horton in the Baltic; Seawolf of the Atlantic; On the Enemy's Doorstep; Skagerrak and The Straits, Malta Flotilla; Cutting Rommel's Life-Line, More Mediterranean Exploits; Uncle Sam's Submariners; Medal of Honour; Success in Japanese Waters. When Submarines first became units of the fighting fleets of the world in the early years of this century they were unimpressive, unseaworthy craft equipped with unreliable, low performance weapons. Those who manned them were, like the early aviator, looked on as harmless cranks. Even at the outbreak of the First World War they had not entirely lived down that reputation but before it was over Britain, at that time the world's greatest naval power, had been brought to within sight of total defeat by the submarine in the hands of her enemies. Submariners had thus joined the front rank of fighting seamen and in doing so they had revolutionized naval warfare. In the Second World War they comprised one of the most effective arms of sea warfare. This is the story of the submarines and of the men who sailed in them from their invention until the end of the Second World War. This exciting volume, in Evans' "Fighting" series, is filled with stories of the greatest possible heroism in the lonely world of the submariner. More