Preface: Submarine warfare / its genesis in Connecticut -- Introduction: The war to end all wars -- Part 1. 1914-1916 -- Predator and prey -- The Firth of Forth -- Sighs of a lovesick mermaid -- Hunting submarines from shore -- A game of hide and seek -- Lusitania -- America awakens -- Preparing for the inevitable -- Part 2. 1917 -- America enters the war -- Crossing the Atlantic -- The first tentative steps -- Physics pure and simple -- A sound detector of exceeding delicacy -- From the laboratory to sea -- Matters of life and death -- A "probable" first kill -- Part 3. 1918 -- Coldest winter on record -- The Naval Reserve Flying Corps -- Listeners in the sky -- The crazy American; U-boats beware -- Invisible light and other magic -- U-boats westward to America -- America eastward to the war -- Listeners at the front and armistice -- Epilogue: the war that did not end all wars
Summary
"Tells the story of the emergence of the submarine in 1914, its impact on warfare, and the efforts to combat it."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2018)
