TY  - BOOK
AU  - Humphreys,Richard
TI  - Under pressure: living life and avoiding death on a nuclear submarine 
SN  - 9781335996244
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Hanover Square Press
KW  - Humphreys, Richard.
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Navy
KW  - Submarine forces
KW  - Submariners
KW  - Biography
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "First published in 2019 by Mudlark, an imprint of HarperCollins UK"--Title page verso; Diagram of HMS Resolution -- Polaris submarine hierarchy -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Beasting -- HMS Neptune, Faslane -- The bomber -- Alongside -- Work-up -- Coulport -- Before the off -- Set sail -- The dive -- A brief tour -- No time -- All the time in the world -- Downtime -- Booze -- Snadgens -- Porn -- Familygrams -- Showtime -- Under the lights -- Cut off -- Racked out -- Food, glorious food -- The day job, the night job, repeat -- Letters from the grave -- Captain is god -- To launch or not to launch -- Homeward bound -- Off crew
N2  - "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? 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"--Dust jacket flap
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