Service most Silent The Navy's fight against enemy Mines :: Naval & Mercantile History :: Other Categories :: National Army Museum

Written by one of the team that fought against the sophisticated silent enemy - mines- laid by the Germans in a bid to starve Britain into submission, this book is the definitive history of anti-mine warfare in the Second World War.

Of the many weapons deployed by Germany to break the will of Britain during the Second World War, mines, the silent enemy, were among the most deadly. The toll taken by mines laid in Britain's shipping lanes became dangerously high - threatening the survival of the nation itself. This book recounts the urgent counter-measures mounted in response, masterminded by a small team of specialists working from the naval shore base HMS Vernon at Portsmouth. They fought against a bewildering variety of increasingly sophisticated mines - magnetic, acoustic, oyster and booby-traps, laid by ships, and U-boats and dropped from the air. John Frayn Turner, the author of this history of the anti-mine war, was one of the Vernon team and writes with an insider's authority of the uphill but eventually successful silent struggle that they waged against an insidious foe.

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Product Code:	21056
Author:	John Frayn Turner
ISBN:	9781844157266
Format:	HB 200 pp Plates Published Price £19.99
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