Under Pressure av Richard Humphreys

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¿One of the finest memoirs published in recent years.¿ Dan Jones¿An utterly fascinating and wonderfully detailed insight into the hidden world of the modern submarine.¿ James HollandA candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what it¿s like to live in one of the most extreme environments in the world.Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast.Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.As a restless and adv