Imprint:
United Kingdom : Evans Brothers Ltd., 1965
Notes:
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 aviators, 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 revolutionised naval warfare. In the Second world War they comprised one of the most effective arms of sea warfare.
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