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A history of the controversial attack sub traces the story of the submarine's invention, exploring how self-taught innovator John Philip Holland's obsession with the idea of controlled undersea navigation led to decades of skepticism, setbacks, and innovation.
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Going deep: John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
2017
in English
- First Pegasus books edition.
1681774291 9781681774299
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Table of Contents
Death from below
Blurred beginnings
Made in America
An American in Paris
Stars and bars
Entr'acte: a fictional interlude
For an independent Ireland
The Fenian Ram
Competition from the clergy
Treading water
Chasing the carrot
Challengers
Uneasy neighbors
Argonaut
The plunge
Shedding ballast
King's gambit accepted
A new skipper
Joining the Navy
Bottom fishing
Displacement
Counterstrike
Proxy war
Skewed competition
A warship in search of a war
Holland without Holland
Excessive ballast
The new class
Suicide squeeze
Going deep.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-368) and index.
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