We Come Unseen

by Jim Ring

"From the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat of a nuclear Armageddon was an everyday reality. The front line of what Churchill called 'the balance of terror' was the submarine forces of the Soviets and the West that were responsible for the delivery of the nuclear ballistic missiles targeted on the world's largest cities. Hundreds of feet beneath the waves, these leviathans vied for supremacy, a supremacy that would signal to their respective political masters their ability to achieve global dominance - or indeed destruction. Alongside them worked the attack submarines, tasked with locating and trailing the missile submarines and - in time of war - with destroying them. Together they played a deadly game of nuclear hide-and-seek. Hitherto, on this side of the Atlantic, little more than hints of this remarkable tale have come to light.^ Now, granted exclusive access to its leading submarine commanders by the Royal Navy, Jim Ring tells for the first t