| Title | : | The Silent Service |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | John Parker |
| Release | : | 2013-02-28 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Military History, Books, History, Nonfiction, Transportation |
| Size | : | 2887737 |
| One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence. John Parker's in-depth investigation is very much personality led with diaries from the early part of the century to substantial first-person testimony from survivors of wartime heroics (when many VCs were won). |
