The book tells the story of the British Submarine Service in two savage and bitter wars foufht beneath the seas.
Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American strategist and military philosopher whose writing has had a profound influence on naval affsirs since the latter part of the nineteenth century, believed seapower to be crucial to a nations wealth and prestige.
The Falkland Islands lie not far from one of the worlds great ocean turning points-focal areas of trade in strategic jorgan but one which did not see a great dead of traffic until the nineteenth century.
In the Royal Navy, the existence of formal doctrine can traced back to the original edition of Fighting Instructions, issued to the fleet in 1972, and to a code of tactical signals promulgated during the Commoneath in 1963.