JONATHAN CRANE - Submarine

London England, British Broadcasting Company, 1985. Reprint, Binding: Cloth, Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0563203269 Hardback Sleek, secret, sinister. Submarines are the most formidable ships of the Roya Navy today. For the BBC TV series producer Jonathan Crane spent one year negotiating with the Royal Navy before gaining unprecedented access to this unknown world. With a small film crew he spent many weeks on different types of British submarines during a variety of genuine operations. The book also traces the development of the submarine from the efforts of the brave and eccentric inventors who first went under the sea, and the British admiral who condemned it as 'damned un-English', through two world wars which were very nearly won by the submarine, and up to the present day when the next generation of submarine, to carry the Trident missile system, is under discussion. Slight browning through age to inside flaps of D/J. Illustrated.