Submarines At War

Description for SUBMARINES AT WAR: THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SILENT SERVICE by Edwin P Hoyt: Comprehensive, illustrated, and action-packed, SUBMARINES AT WAR is an account of American undersea warfare from the time the Yankees invented a submarine to use against the blockading Royal Navy of George III. This history recounts the little-known use of submersible "Davids" in the Civil War, as well as turn-of-the-century developments by American inventors such as John Holland, whose vessel became the prototype of the world's submarines. Here, too, are the adventures of the early submariners called "pigboats." And here are the stories of several submarine disasters, from which the service learned basic lessons of operation and survival. American submarines were deployed but saw little action in World War I; in World War II their use against the Axis powers, Japan in particular, shortened the war by years. Here's what it was like to be in the conning tower of the Spearfish as sh