THE SILENT DEEP: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp. [Complete number line 003.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,generally clean,matt, wrap-around,bisected blue+white diagonally coloured front+ rear panels of dw/dj with capitalised,black-lettered part-title and other black-lettered sub-title to white background's top left-hand triangular portion, along with author's capitalised,blue-lettered names, remainder light blue background with monochrome black+blue surfaced sub's photograph,spine/backstrip bisected diagonally into white top half and light blue to bottom half,with capitalised part title to white background and author's capitalised,white lettered names and publisher's capitalised white-lettered+ illustrated colophon to bottom half and foot of same, rear panel with slight grubbing and 4 thumbnail b/w photographs and black-lettered captions to same in white segment of dw/dj. Some minimal shelf-wear, some bumping,creasing - due to slightly oversized dw/dj – but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered - miniscule pushing to tips - original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked white ink lettered spine/ backstrip,a white headband, and immaculate coloured map/nautical chart illustrated endpapers - North Atlantic Ocean,Northern Part and South Atlantic,Approches to the Falkland Islands to front+rear endpapers,respectively.UK, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp,viii-xxxviipp [part-paginated]+2-823pp [paginated] includes verso of Contents list/table,Illustrations list/table,authors' Preface, 5pp Abbreviations,,an Introduction,11 chapters+Epilogue,2 x 8pp sections of contemporary b/w photographs and 3 x 8pp sections with a mixture of both b/w+colour contemporary photographs - majority in colour - interspersed throughout the text and the book,25pp b/w line illustrations of submarine profiles,Notes,Acknowledgements and Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with blank reverse,and Maps list of,and 4 double-page b/w South Atlantic operations maps,epigrams (2) Shakespeare Owen Glendower - King Herny IV Part1 and Rudyard Kipling poem 'TheTrade' from 'Sea Warfare,1914-18' - these unpaginated pages come after the Illustrations list/table and before the Preface,and to the rear 2pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in a more than acceptablel condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading. Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness and lack of wear and tear. 'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces,the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented co-operation from the Service itself and privileged access to documents and personnel,'The Silent Deep' is the first authoritative history of the Submarine Service from the end of the Second World War to the present. It gives the most complete account yet published of the development of Britain's submarine fleet, its capabilities, its weapons, its infrastructure, its operations and above all - from the testimony of many submariners and the first-hand witness of the authors - what life is like on board for the denizens of the silent deep. Dramatic episodes are revealed for the first time: how HMS Warspite gathered intelligence against the Soviet Navy's latest ballistic-missile-carrying submarine in the late 1960s; how HMS Sovereign made what is probably the longest-ever trail of a Soviet (or Russian) submarine in 1978; how HMS Trafalgar followed an exceptionally quiet Soviet 'Victor III', probably commanded by a Captain known as 'the Prince of Darkness',in 1986. It also includes the first full account of submarine activities during the Falklands War. But it was not all victories: confrontations with Soviet submarines led to collisions,and the extent of losses to UK and NATO submarine technology from Cold War spy scandals are also made more plain here than ever before. In 1990 the Cold War ended - but not for the Submarine Service. Since June 1969, it has been the last line of national defence,with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent. The story from Polaris to Trident - and now 'Successor' - is a central theme of the book. In the year that it is published,Russian submarines have once again been detected off the UK's shores. As Britain comes to decide whether to renew its submarine-carried nuclear deterrent,'The Silent Deep' provides an essential historical perspective. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. 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