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An unusual book covering the technology and strategy for dealing with sea mines, principally in the Second World War. The 17-page prologue is a fictionalized account of the opening phase of a Third World War at sea from the perspective of the use of mines by the Soviets to attack NATO sea lanes.
The first portion of the book is a history of mines and attempts to destroy ships with floating or slightly submerged explosive devices. The bulk of the book is a look at the German use of the mine in WW2 and British efforts to defeat them. The technology of the sea mine and the methods used to locate and counter them are explained in some detail and the author does a very good job of making a little understood subject clearer (mines being more than the contact mines depicted in war movies). The last chapter of the book covers the post-war use of mines at a high-level.
The author served in WW2 in the Royal Navy as an anti-mine specialist and is well acquainted with the subject.
