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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversary 's homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Co...more
Paperback, 407 pages
Published
June 30th 2005
by Potomac Books
(first published September 2003)
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this book would have done well with color photos, especially given its price. and an editor, though it's not so bad in that regard as other recent selections. exquisite detail, and excellent coverage of vice admiral hyman rickover (something that i was hoping for, but not expecting). certainly the definitive unclassified reference, though i would have enjoyed more naval engineering. i augmented my reading with selections from that endless rabbit's hole known as MIT Open Courseware, and recommend...more
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