The Silent Deep by James Jinks
In 1990 the Cold War ended - but not for the Submarine Service. Since June 1969, it has been the last line of national defence, with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent. From Polaris to Trident - and now 'Successor', this book provides an essential historical perspective.
A tour de force, a valuable resource for naval historians and future generations to wonder atAnd I can't help hoping that our current leaders will make themselves aware of some vitally significant issues that it raises. -- Admiral Lord West * Spectator *
The lay reader cannot fail to be absorbed by its dramatic tales of cat-and-mouse skirmishes with Soviet hunter-killer submarines, embarrassing spy scandals and lucid accounts of the Falklands War - all enlivened with first-hand testimony from the submariners themselves. -- Richard Blackmore * Independent *
Staying out of sight has political consequences as well as operational benefits, for it means that the complex and demanding nature of submarine work has been poorly understood. Hennessy and Jinks have ensured that this need no longer be the case. -- Lawrence Freedman * Financial Times *
Hennessy and Jinks raise the submarine service from its dark lurking place and put it convincingly at the centre of our modern history and present politics. The Silent Deep provides microscopic analysis of the political storms created by the nuclear deterrent since the 1950s and it will be a key text as politicians wrestle with the successor to Trident. -- Ben Wilson * Times *
The lay reader cannot fail to be absorbed by its dramatic tales of cat-and-mouse skirmishes with Soviet hunter-killer submarines, embarrassing spy scandals and lucid accounts of the Falklands War - all enlivened with first-hand testimony from the submariners themselves. -- Richard Blackmore * Independent *
Staying out of sight has political consequences as well as operational benefits, for it means that the complex and demanding nature of submarine work has been poorly understood. Hennessy and Jinks have ensured that this need no longer be the case. -- Lawrence Freedman * Financial Times *
Hennessy and Jinks raise the submarine service from its dark lurking place and put it convincingly at the centre of our modern history and present politics. The Silent Deep provides microscopic analysis of the political storms created by the nuclear deterrent since the 1950s and it will be a key text as politicians wrestle with the successor to Trident. -- Ben Wilson * Times *
James Jinks completed his PhD under Peter Hennessy at Queen Mary. His first book was 50 Years of the Polaris Sales Agreement, commissioned by Her Majesty's Government to mark 50 years of Polaris. He is now at work on A Very British Bomb, a history of the British nuclear deterrent. Peter Hennessy, one of Britain's best-known historians, is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary, Univeristy of London. He is the author of Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. He was made an independent crossbench life peer in 2010.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846145803 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846145805 |
| Title | The Silent Deep |
| Author | James Jinks |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 864 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Parliamentary Book Awards: Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian 2016 |
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