Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day

by Robert Hutchinson

Book Overview

This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia begins with the primitive boats of the 18th and 19th centuries, covers the submarines of both World Wars and goes on to the nuclear submarines of today. Naval... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060819006
• ISBN13: 9780060819002
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Nicely illustrated book

This covers the early history of submarines, Bushnell's Turtle through Holland's efforts for the U.S. Navy through the early pre-World War 1 submarines, especially well. Both of the World War submarines fleets are examined, but not in great detail, as this is a relatively thin book. The Cold War also has a lot of coverage in other books, and the treatment here was somewhat thin. No Victors or Novembers for the Soviet Union, for example. Overall a good book for an introduction. I've deducted a star for the horrid editing and fact checking. Most every page has a spelling or grammatical mistake. Some dates are obviously wrong, transposed digits, but what other mistakes might be hiding in here?

An Excellent Submarine Book

Great illustrations and photographs. Spent 11 years on subs, and this is a book every submariner should have in his collection.