Subsmash: The Mysterious Disappearance of HM Submarine Affray - Tapa dura

Using documents, interviews with experts and contemporary news sources, this book explores how and why Affray became the last British submarine lost at sea. It provides a recreation of the last mission of this doomed submarine, the effect it had on the families of those who perished, and on British public opinion at the time.

ALAN GALLOP worked at Heathrow as a reporter with a national news agency between 1966 and 1978, covering every conceivable type of story for the international media. He was one of the team that launched the airport newspaper, Skyport. Since the early 1980s he has represented a number of Heathrow-based airlines in a public relations capacity, as well as writing promotional books for international airports in Europe, Asia and theMiddle East.