# The Silent Service

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- Book: [The Silent Service](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-parker/the-silent-service) ([The Silent Service.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-parker/the-silent-service.md))
- Authors: [John L. Parker Jr.](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-parker)
- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-4723-805-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-06-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence. John Parker's in-depth investigation is very much personality led with diaries from the early part of the century to substantial first-person testimony from survivors of wartime heroics (when many VCs were won).