Nautilus to Columbia: 70 years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines
Posted by Daryl on December 22, 2023, 9:37:44
My copy of this book arrived last week, and I've had a chance to study the first 70 pages and browse through the rest. I'd recommend waiting until you can find a copy for half price. The pictures are excellent, and it indeed has images of every American nuclear submarine, but for $70, I expected WAY better editing and factchecking. I've already seen Halibut described as having an S43C reactor and a single screw, the Skipjacks having a maximum submerged speed of 19 knots, the Los Angeles class with six torpedo tubes, Narwhal as part of the Sturgeon class, and an early SSBN class (can't remember which...) being armed with ADCAPs. I'm just imagining poor Tom Dougherty flipping through this thing and having an aneurysm! I'm disappointed, because I enjoyed the author's two earlier books on USN SSNs, but there obviously wasn't much care taken in this volume's production. Of course, I should expect a degree of style over substance from Osprey at this point...
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