WE COME UNSEEN: The Untold Story of Britain's Cold War Submariners

London: John Murray, 2001. xiv, + 270pp. B/white maps. Unpaginated (16 page) b/white illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright silver title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves mildly edge-tanned, else clean and unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased and surface scuffed. From the jacket flap: "From the Chilean missile crisis to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat of a nuclear Armageddon was an everyday reality. The front line of what Churchill called 'the balance of terror' was the submarine forces of the Soviets and the West that were responsible for the delivery of nuclear ballistic missiles targeted on the world's largest cities. Hundreds of feet beneath the waves, these leviathans vied for supremacy . . . This book is as much about the personnel of the submarine squadrons as their operations, and it follows the careers of six submarine commanders from their early days at Dartmouth to their remarkable escapades in the Atlantic, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Norwegian and the Barents Seas." Contents include: Illustrations. Preface. Maps. Prologue. 13 chapters. Epilogue. Bibliography, Acks. Index. Book weight approx. 630g. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 24cm x 16.25cm).