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Under pressure : living life and avoiding death on a nuclear submarine / Richard Humphreys.

Summary:

This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure. What's it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over a hundred fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure. As a restless and adventurous eighteen-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the Royal Navy submarine service. For five years during the Cold War, he served on the nuclear sub HMS Resolution. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. He existed in a world without natural light, surrounded by 140 other men, all eating the same food, breathing the same air, smelling the same putrid smells and surviving together in some of the most forbidding conditions imaginable. Based on Humphreys' firsthand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep and eat--and stay sane--in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781335996244
  • ISBN: 9780008313074
  • Physical Description: 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2020.
Subject: Humphreys, Richard.
Great Britain. Royal Navy > Submarine forces > 20th century > Anecdotes.
Great Britain. Royal Navy > Sea life > Anecdotes.
Submariners > Great Britain > Biography.
Submarines (Ships) > Great Britain > Anecdotes.
Cold War > Anecdotes.
Veterans > Great Britain > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.

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  • 5 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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Marion Library BIO HUM (Text) 37810435765879 Adult Biography Checked out 09/05/2024
Albemarle Main Library 359.93 Hum (Text) 31010000719213 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Lenoir Library B HUMPHREYS Richard Hu (Text) 50669012539780 Adult Biography Available -
Spring Lake Library 359.9309 H (Text) 31781066529189 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Thomasville Public Library 359.93 H (Text) 25908008014040 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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