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Alfred McLaren's Silent and Unseen invites you into the underwater world of intrigue he experienced during his distinctive career as a submarine officer. McLaren gives a vivid account--including some heart-stopping moments--of the reconnaissance and intelligence gathering missions employed by fast attack submarines during the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies. I had the privilege of serving with McLaren on the USS Skipjack and to observe first hand his knowledge, skills and capability to assess and correct any situation. --Howard D. Mitchell, author's shipmate on USS Skipjack

'In this very readable and entertaining book the author describes the hectic and varied life on an officer on submarines during the change over from conventional to nuclear boats. The author illustrates both the excitement and frustration of being continually at sea on high-risk reconnaissance and intelligence collection patrols.' - Warships 181, World Ship Society

Alfred McLaren's new book provides valuable, first-hand insight into submarine operations during the Cold War. --CAPT. DAVID C. MINTON III, USN, former commanding officer, USS Guardfish (SSN-612)

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Capt. Alfred Scott McLaren is a USN (Ret.), PhD, former nuclear attack submarine officer and commander. He is a veteran of more than twenty Cold War missions and three Arctic expeditions. He took part in the first submerged transit of the Northwest Passage, a Baffin Bay expedition, and, as commander of USS Queenfish (SSN-651), a North Pole expedition that completed the first survey of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf. He is the president of The American Polar Society and former president of The Explorers Club, USA.

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