The Submarine Alliance (Anatomy of a Ship series) by Lambert, John/Hill, David

Annapolis 1986, Naval Institute, US first edition, hard bound in dust jacket, oblong 10 1/4 x 9 1/4, VG/VG CONDITION, 120 pages, illus, and hundreds of scale plans.------------------------------------------------------------The 'A' class were the culmination of British World War II submarine design, and benefitted enormously from wartime lessons and the latest available technology. This book covers the whole class, although it concentrates on Alliance, which has been preserved as part of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport.This volume features• Full description of the class, both as built and as reconstructed in the late 1950s, with details of the class variations and appearance changes• Pictorial section emphasizing internal views and close-up photographs• Over 350 perspective and 3-view drawings, with in-depth descriptive keys, of every detail of the class — general arrangements, externalvariations, machinery, fittings and armament (including deck guns)A complete anatomy of this class in words, photographs and drawings