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Chronicles the history and evolution of submarines and of the inventors and engineers who developed them, from eighteenth-century conception to twentieth-century reality, and discusses the military deployment, strategic implications, and future of the submarine.
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As entertaining as a high-tech thriller, The Submarine is essential reading for understanding the last hundred years of war. It tells the story of the dreamers who first imagined submersible ships and the ingenious and practical engineers who created them; of the visionary national leaders and naval strategists who supported the development of underwater warships and the famous steel- nerved men on all sides who wielded this weapon. The Submarine details the role of subs in both world wars, and how, in the nuclear age, they became the most powerful weapons of war ever created?the force that paradoxically kept the peace during the Cold War without firing a single shot.
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