Böcker av Duncan (National Museum of the Royal Navy Redford

This book argues that World War II was, effectively, a maritime war; it was the Royal Navy's war.

'Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. However, by the 1960s new nuclear powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first class navy'. This book explores the changing attitudes to the submarine in Britain from World War One to the age of nuclear combat.