All Entries in the "Submarine Books" Category

This was the sole U.S. military landing on Japanese soil during the war. Drawing on ship’s logs, letters, interviews, diaries and his own memory, Fluckey, a retired rear admiral, reconstructs every attack by and against the sub from its eighth through its 12th and last patrol.

Highly recommended for World War II collections. Military Bk. Club main selection.

Stalking the Red Bear—for the first time ever—describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine during the Cold War, taking readers closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before.

This is the untold true story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities knew anything about these top-secret missions, and with good reason: the curtain of secrecy surrounding submarine operations, beginning in World War II, is nearly impenetrable.

Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection, this Sturgeon-class boat went sub versus sub deep within Soviet-controlled waters north of the Arctic Circle, where the risks were extraordinarily high and anything could happen. Readers will know what it was like to carry out a covert mission aboard a nuke and experience the sights, sounds, and dangers unique to submarining.

Only a writer of Mr. Clancy’s magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public.

Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world…the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves…the startling facts behind the fiction that made Tom Clancy a #1 bestselling author.

Submarine includes:

Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s top submarines — Silversides, Drum, and Tang — author James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service.

Based on more than 100 interviews with submarine veterans and thousands of pages of previously unpublished letters and diaries, The War Below will let readers experience the battle for the Pacific as never before.

Submarines 1940–Present brings together the most important submarines from the beginning of World War II to the present in a single, handy volume arranged in alphabetical order.

The book includes World War II classics, such as U-47 and HMS Vagabond, as well as modern nuclear-powered submarines, such as the Chinese Song class, the Russian Borei class, and USS Seawolf.

Each submarine entry includes a specifications table with essential information such as armament, weight, speed, and range

Divided by era, campaign and country, the book includes sections on submarine forces in 1914, technical developments during the 1930s, the Atlantic convoy war during World War II, Soviet submarine development during the Cold War, the introduction of nuclear-powered submarines, submarines of the Falklands War, and the latest ICBM carriers.

All the main types are included, from the World War I-era German U-1 and British F-class, through the Type VII U-boats and US Gato class of World War II, and coming up-to-date with the latest missile submarines, such as HMS Astute, USS Virginia, the Russian Borei class, the Chinese Shang class and the INS Arihant.

It reads like a spy thriller – except everything in it is true!

For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man’s Bluff, a magnificent achievement in investigative reporting.

This is an epic of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea, a story filled with unforgettable characters who engineered daring missions to tap the enemy’s underwater communications cables and to shadow Soviet submarines.