The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 - Couverture rigide

Jinks, James; Hennessy, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846145805 ISBN 13 : 9781846145803

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the 114 years since its birth, the Royal Navy Submarine Service has stretched from the North Pole to the South Atlantic, from the Far East to the Barents Sea. The United Kingdom is girdled with the infrastructure required to support this vast enterprise; and the submarines of its Trident system form the sole basis of the UK's position as the world's reluctant nuclear power. Yet this is a subject that remains shrouded in secrecy. To this day, the Ministry of Defence responds to all enquiries about submarine operations with a simple phrase: "The Ministry of Defence does not comment on submarine operations."Written with privileged access to both documents and personnel, The Silent Deep is the first authoritative history of the British submarine service since the end of the Second World War. This will be a history book which makes headlines.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Peter Hennessy (Author) Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, was until recently Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary College, London, and the Director of the Mile End Institute of Contemporary British Government, Intelligence and Society. He is the author of Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. He was made a life peer in 2010.James Jinks (Author) James Jinks completed his PhD under the direction of Peter Hennessy at Queen Mary. His first book was 50 Years of the Polaris Sales Agreement, commissioned by Her Majesty's Government to mark 50 years of Polaris. He is now at work on A Very British Bomb, a complete history of the British nuclear deterrent.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846145805
• ISBN 13: 9781846145803
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 864