One of Our Submarines

by Edward Young · 1952

PRE ISBN

From the inside-front cover:

Commander Young joined up as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal naval Volunteer Reserve in April 1940, and four months later entered the submarine service. After three years of almost continuous war patrols, off Norway and North Russia, in the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, and after escaping from a sunken submarine, he became the very first 'wavy striper' to command an operational submarine. This is his story. It was placed by the Sunday Times "in the very highest rank of books about the war."

The main part of the narrative describes the author's time in command; and besides being an account of H.M. Submarine Storm'swar-time operation, it is at the same time the story of a very amateur sailor learning an unusual job.

When first published it was acknowledged by many newspapers as the best sea story of the war. The Times Literary Supplement said, "Here, in unaffected terms, so openly written that at the end of the book it seems that the author has barely passed muster as a submarine captain, is near the whole truth about conditions in a British Submarine as one is likely to get."And Punch offered no mean praise when it wrote that "in this exciting book, which may well prove the underwater classic, Edward Young writes prose that matches the variety and tensions of a tremendous story ... One Of Our Submarinesis so compelling that it makes us feel we have shared the long adventure."

32 b/w photographic plates, 9 b/w maps, and diagrams.

Additional Note:Bound at the back of THIS Penguin '1000' edition is an eight page article titled "A Retrospect":being an eight page account of the history and development of Penguin Books, based on an earlier article (ed. Edmond Segrave) published in The Bookseller.