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ZIN Product Number: 10000469
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 Format: Hardcover, 223 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0007105584
Release Date: Jan 3, 1999
| |  | | | In Brief
Beginning with the earliest models of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book covers the submarines of both World Wars and goes on to examine the nuclear submarines of today. Sidebars discuss submarine accidents, weapons technology, sensors, oceanography, and rescue missions. Diagrams, maps, and photographs are included, along with illustrations of every major type of submarine and anti- submarine warship. Hutchinson was the defense correspondent of the Press Association from 1977 to 1983. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
| | | | From The Publisher
Beginning with the primitive, manual powered boats of the 18th and 19th centuries, the book covers the submarines of both World Wars and goes on to study and examine the nuclear submarines of today. Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons will illustrate every major type of submarine and anti-submarine warship, while data tables bring together information from every submarine museum in the world, with sidebars on submarine accidents, weapons technology, sensors, oceanography, rescue missions and many other fascinating aspects of the war beneath the waves.
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| | | |  | | | | Early Designs | 6 | | The Holland Boats | 22 | | Pre-World War I Designs | 32 | | World War I Designs | 42 | | Inter War Submarine Design | 70 | | World War II Design & Construction | 96 | | Legacy of U-Boat Innovation | 112 | | Nuclear Age 1: The Hunter Killers | 134 | | Nuclear Age 2: The Boomers | 166 | | Midget Submarines: The New Underwater Menace | 194 | | Appendix 1 | Order of Battle of the World's Submarines | 204 | | Appendix 2 | Submarine Accidents 1905-2000 | 215 | | Index | 220 |
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