In this volume, Gary E. Weir assesses the Navy's efforts between 1914 and 1940 to develop effective submarines. In particular, the author describes the work of

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Describes the work of the Navy and private industry that allowed the relatively primitive submersible of the First World War period to be replaced by the fleet

“ . . . until now how the Navy managed to instantaneously move from the overt legal restrictions of the naval arms treaties that bound submarines to the cruis