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The Deadly Trade - The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present (Paperback)
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The Deadly Trade - The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 480
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The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage
through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars
tried to achieve victory, first for the Kaiser and then 20 years
later for Adolf Hitler. It tells the story of how such tiny craft
took on mighty battleships, including U-boats sinking HMS Royal Oak
and HMS Barham in WW2, along with the incredible exploits of
British submariners in the Dardanelles and Baltic during WW1.The
action-packed narrative includes bitterly contested Atlantic convoy
fights of WW2 and submarines in the clash of battle fleets at
Midway. Iain Ballantyne also reveals how the US Navy submarine
service brought the Japanese empire to its knees in 1945, even
before the atomic bombs were dropped. The Deadly Trade tells the
amazing stories of not only pioneers such as Drebbel, Fulton and
Holland, but also of legendary submarine captains, including Max
Horton and Otto Weddigen in WW1. During WW2 we sail to war with
Otto Kretschmer, Gunther Prien, Fritz-Julius Lemp, Malcolm Wanklyn,
Dudley Morton, Richard O'Kane and Sam Dealey. We get involved in
the famous fights of Britain's ace submarine-killing escort group
leaders Frederic 'Johnny' Walker, Donald Macintyre and Peter
Gretton. There is a dive into unconventional submarine warfare,
including Japanese midget subs in the notorious Pearl Harbor raid
plus British X-craft against the Tirpitz in Arctic waters. Iain
Ballantyne plunges readers into famous Enigma machine captures that
played a key role in deciding the outcome of WW2. He explains what
the Nazis were up to at the end of WW2, pursuing Total Underwater
Warfare, partly via the revolutionary Type XXI U-boat. Ballantyne
reveals the incredible story of a proposed cruise missile attack on
New York and considers the likelihood (or otherwise) of Hitler
escaping to South America in a U-boat. The Deadly Trade takes us
into the post-WW2 face-off between the Soviets and NATO, the
sinking of the Indian frigate INS Khukri by Pakistan's PNS Hangor
and attack on the Argentine cruiser ARA Belgrano by HMS Conqueror.
The Deadly Trade concludes with today's growing submarine arms race
and Putin's 'missile boat diplomacy' along with the use of cruise
missiles by the British and Americans to try and decapitate rogue
regimes. The Deadly Trade is the perfect companion to Hunter
Killers, Iain Ballantyne's real-life Cold War submarine thriller.
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