What you think you know, about submarine history, may not be true. Most books that cover the early history of, submarines are riddled with errors; click on the link to see some, of them! By getting closer to original sources on such pioneers, as Bourne, Drebbel, Papin, Borelli, Symons, Bushnell, Fulton, Sam Colt and Lodner Phillips -- among others -- author Brayton, Harris has set down a reasonably accurate and highly, interesting, text in a narrative that begins with 1580 -- but gives a special, focus on the role of submarines in the Civil War, World War I and World War II, and beyond.
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