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Submarine : A History by Thomas Parrish (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670033138
ISBN-13
9780670033133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30218676

Product Key Features

Book Title
Submarine : a History
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Military / General, Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History
Author
Thomas Parrish
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
36.2 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-070515
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
359.9/383
Table Of Content
contents Preface ix List of Maps xv Charleston 2000–1864 Chapter 1: The Peripatetic Coffin 3 Part I The Underwater Pioneers Chapter 2: Dreamers and Some Doers 9 Chapter 3: The Dream Realized: Holland and Lake 23 Part II The Great War: The U-Boats and Mr. Wilson Chapter 4: Those Damned Englanders” 45 Chapter 5: The Dreaded Little Submarine” 57 Chapter 6: Blockades for a New War 67 Chapter 7: My God, It’s the Lusitania!” 82 Chapter 8: A President Too Proud 94 Chapter 9: From Folkestone to Dieppe 105 Chapter 10: In the Med 113 Chapter 11: The Cursed Crowd” 123 Chapter 12: The Fight for Sea Shepherds 139 Chapter 13: Ideas, Methods, and Triumph 150 Part III From War to War Chapter 14: Boats and Builders I 165 Chapter 15: Arms and the Nations 171 Chapter 16: Boats and Builders II 178 Part IV World War II: The Struggle for the Atlantic Chapter 17: Lieutenant Lemp’s Great Decision 195 Chapter 18: U-Boats in Trouble 207 Chapter 19: Atlantic Raiders: The Happy Time” 220 Chapter 20: Déjà Vu in the North Atlantic? 234 Chapter 21: Raiders in the Far West 251 Chapter 22: Massacre in the North 265 Chapter 23: Too Much for the Hun” 284 Part V World War II: The Pacific Prize Chapter 24: Surprise and Shock 299 Chapter 25: Execute Unrestricted Warfare” 317 Chapter 26: Battle: Boats vs. Invaders 334 Chapter 27: Submarines at Midway 355 Chapter 28: War Mission for the Giants 378 Chapter 29: The Star and the Torpedoes 388 Chapter 30: Medals of Honor 404 Part VI THE COLD War: The nUCLEAR GUARANTEE Chapter 31: Toward the True Submarine 427 Chapter 32: The Price That Would Be Paid” 442 Chapter 33: Admiral Burke Makes a Choice 462 Chapter 34: The Reign of the Boomers 476 Chapter 35: Killers, Spies, and Tragedies 491 Epilogue: On Eternal Patrol 513 Notes 519 Bibliography 547 Acknowledgments 559 Index 563 list of maps The North Atlantic 46 Pearl Harbor 300 The Pacific 313 Luzon (Philippines) 335
Synopsis
For centuries people dreamed of navigating under the sea, but it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that inventors succeeded in developing practical submarines. With the coming of World War I, nations saw something entirely new in war: the deadly effectiveness of underwater craft, with German U-boats threatening to starve Britain and bringing the United States into the war, thus proving underwater battles more important than the great battles fought on land. A generation later U-boats repeated the struggle in the Atlantic, while in the Pacific U.S. submarines literally put Japan out of business. Then in the nuclear age, the true submarine became the most powerful weapon of war ever created—the weapon that paradoxically kept the peace.Now, military historian Thomas Parrish tells the story of those who first dreamed of underwater ships; of the practical and ingenious inventors and engineers who created and developed the submarine; of visionary naval strategists; of famous skippers on all sides—steel-nerved men like America’s Dick O’Kane, Germany’s Reinhard Hardegen—who wielded this weapon; of the famous and infamous deeds of boats like the U-20, the Wahoo, and the nuclear-powered Nautilusand George Washington; and of the tragedies that befell boats like the American Thresherand the Russian Kursk. Parrish’s compelling narrative blends strategy, high policy, technology, heroism, and perilous adventure.
LC Classification Number
V857.P37 2004