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Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine

English

By (author): Richard Humphreys

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 Holland

A candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what its 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 adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash.

But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song, or

Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what its like to live, work, sleep, eat and stay sane in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 270g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jun 2021
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008313074

About Richard Humphreys

Richard Humphreys has been a bookseller for over 20 years. In 2017 he sat on the judging panel of the prestigious Costa Awards for Best Biography. From 1985 to 1990 Richard served in the Royal Navy and spent his career on the Polaris submarines which carried nuclear ballistic missiles. Under Pressure is his first book. He lives with his family in London.

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