TULLE AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITISH SUBMARINES COMMANDER Ane: PAUL KEMPhe Royal Navy Submarine Service of ‘oday plays a central role in the defence of Great Britain. With the Trident D5 ballistic misil, the Service maintains and operates a weapon of unimaginable destructive power, while the ewelve fleet submarines of the ‘Swiffsure’and ‘Trafalgar’ classes are the ‘most potent individual vesels in the Royal Navy's order of batle. But in the early years of the twentieth century, the ole ofthe submarine was anything but central o the Royal Navy. Since Submarine Holland 1 was lid down in 1901, submarines have undergone tremendous change. Holland 1 was small and primitive, its ability unproven, while the nuclear-powered “Trident’ clas submarines of today’s Royal Navy are 165 times heavier. Their abiley to travel the oceans ofthe world for months on end, fll submerged and carrying Britain’ nuclear deterrent, i a graphic illustration of thie quantum leap in design and technology: [Nothing illustrates this change better than the fascinating selection of photographs collected for this book from the archives of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, the Imperial ‘War Museum, the National Maritime Storco Naval in Venice, and a number of private collections. They cover the stores ofthe first submersibles, the development ofthe submarine as a potent weapon of sea power in the First and Second World Wars, and the clawn of the nuclear age when submarines became launch platforms for strategic muclear sweapons with the potential for mass destruction HIM Submarines in Camera gives a graphic view of lif in British submarines wich have ‘been an integral part ofthe Royal Navy for the past 100 years ~ submarines that range from the tiny “Holland” class designed in Queen Victoria's reign, to the monstrous “Vanguard” class ofthe nuclear age. Their exploits from the North Cape to the Falklands, fom the Mediterranean to the Pacific, are legendary, and the award of fourteen Victoria Crosses to the Submarine Service is testimony to the devotion, courage and past sacrifice of those brave men who are proud to eal chemsclvessubmariners lustrated throughout with archive photographs accompanied by detailed captions, HM Submarines in Camera will appeal to all with an interest inthe Royal Navy and its enduring asociation with the submarine £19.99SUBMARINES IN CAMERA