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Submarine warfare : warships of the deep and their hunters /

This documentary comprehensively traces the development of these ultimate weapons, from earliest beginnings, the greased-leather Drebbel boat of 1620, the egg-shaped Turtle of America's Revolutionary War, the famous Holland boats, the terrors and triumphs of submarine warfare in WWI and WWII, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Booth, Robert (Narrator), Moore, Jonathan (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Pottstown, PA : MVD Entertainment Group, 2001.
Series:VAST: academic video online
Subjects:
Submarine warfare.
Submarines (Ships)
Guerre sous-marine.
Sous-marins.
Submarine warfare
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Summary:This documentary comprehensively traces the development of these ultimate weapons, from earliest beginnings, the greased-leather Drebbel boat of 1620, the egg-shaped Turtle of America's Revolutionary War, the famous Holland boats, the terrors and triumphs of submarine warfare in WWI and WWII, with boats both hunting and hunted, through to today's Leviathans. Using a vast archive of documentary footage, the program includes never before released film of both nuclear and conventional attack and hunter-killer submarines with full coverage of their weapons systems.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed May 13, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (58 min.).
Playing Time:00:58:17