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Author: James Jinks ,
Peter Hennessy
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 19.90cm
Weight: 0.642kg
ISBN: 9780241959480
ISBN 10: 0241959489
Pages: 864
Publication Date: 02 June 2016
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A tour de force, a valuable resource for naval historians and future generations to wonder at. And I can't help hoping that our current leaders will make themselves aware of some vitally significant issues that it raises. -- Admiral Lord West Spectator The lay reader cannot fail to be absorbed by its dramatic tales of cat-and-mouse skirmishes with Soviet hunter-killer submarines, embarrassing spy scandals and lucid accounts of the Falklands War - all enlivened with first-hand testimony from the submariners themselves. -- Richard Blackmore Independent Staying out of sight has political consequences as well as operational benefits, for it means that the complex and demanding nature of submarine work has been poorly understood. Hennessy and Jinks have ensured that this need no longer be the case. -- Lawrence Freedman Financial Times Hennessy and Jinks raise the submarine service from its dark lurking place and put it convincingly at the centre of our modern history and present politics. The Silent Deep provides microscopic analysis of the political storms created by the nuclear deterrent since the 1950s and it will be a key text as politicians wrestle with the successor to Trident. -- Ben Wilson Times
A tour de force, a valuable resource for naval historians and future generations to wonder at. And I can't help hoping that our current leaders will make themselves aware of some vitally significant issues that it raises. -- Admiral Lord West Spectator The lay reader cannot fail to be absorbed by its dramatic tales of cat-and-mouse skirmishes with Soviet hunter-killer submarines, embarrassing spy scandals and lucid accounts of the Falklands War - all enlivened with first-hand testimony from the submariners themselves. -- Richard Blackmore Independent
The lay reader cannot fail to be absorbed by its dramatic tales of cat-and-mouse skirmishes with Soviet hunter-killer submarines, embarrassing spy scandals and lucid accounts of the Falklands War - all enlivened with first-hand testimony from the submariners themselves. -- Richard Blackmore * Independent * A tour de force, a valuable resource for naval historians and future generations to wonder at. And I can't help hoping that our current leaders will make themselves aware of some vitally significant issues that it raises. -- Admiral Lord West * Spectator *
Author Information
Peter Hennessy (Author) Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the classic 'post-war trilogy' Never Again- Britain 1945-51 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), Having it So Good- Britain in the Fifties (winner of the Orwell Prize) and Winds of Change- Britain in the Early Sixties, the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State- Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. He was made an independent crossbench life peer in 2010. James Jinks (Author) James Jinks completed his PhD under Peter Hennessy at Queen Mary. His first book was 50 Years of the Polaris Sales Agreement, commissioned by Her Majesty's Government to mark 50 years of Polaris. He is now at work on A Very British Bomb, a history of the British nuclear deterrent.
