Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander - Couverture rigide

McLaren, Alfred Scott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 081732092X ISBN 13 : 9780817320928

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2021

Synopsis

Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk and covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War

Captain Alfred Scott McLaren served as Commander of the USS Queenfish (SSN 651) from September 1969 to May 1973-the very height of the Cold War. As commander, McLaren led at least six major clandestine operations, including the first-ever exploration of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf, a perilous voyage detailed in his previous book Unknown Waters.

Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander conveys the entire spectrum of Captain McLaren's experiences commanding the USS Queenfish mainly in waters of the Russian Far East and also off Vietnam. This book is a riveting and deeply human story that illuminates the intensity and pressures of commanding a nuclear attack submarine in some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable.

McLaren focuses on operational matters, both great and small. Based on his own notes and records as well as discussions with former officers and shipmates, McLaren recounts his unique perspectives on attack-submarine tactics and exploratory techniques in high-risk or uncharted areas, matters of leadership and team-building and the morale of his crews, and the innumerable and often unforeseen ways his philosophy of command played out on a day-to-day basis, with consequences that ran the gamut from the mundane to the dire and life-threatening.

Readers are also treated to significant new information and insight on submarine strategy, tactics, and culture-details that illuminate and bring to life, with both great humor and gravitas, the intensity and pressures on those engaged in covert missions on nuclear attack submarines.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alfred Scott McLaren, Ph.D. and retired US Navy Captain, is recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of The Explorers Club, former senior pilot of the SAS Super Aviator submersible, and president emeritus of The American Polar Society. He is author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) and Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081732092X
• ISBN 13: 9780817320928
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible