• Medientyp: Buch; Biografie; Bibliografie
  • Titel: Going deep : John Philip Holland and the invention of the attack submarine
  • Beteiligte: Goldstone, Lawrence [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: New York; London: Pegasus Books, June 2017
  • Ausgabe: First Pegasus books edition
  • Umfang: 378 Seiten; Illustrationen, Portrait; 24 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 1681774291; 9781681774299; 9781681777818
  • Entstehung:
  • RVK-Notation: ZO 2052 : Einzelbiografien (CSN), Memoiren
    ZO 6020 : Geschichte der Schifffahrt
    ZO 6460 : Spezialschiffe
  • Schlagwörter: Holland, John Philip
  • Beschreibung: 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

    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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