num_pages: 364
description: The Canadian Submarine Service has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since 1914. Surprise, controversy, political expediency, and naval manipulation overflow its 94 year history. Heroes, eccentrics and ordinary people populate this extraordinary story, epitomizing the true essence of the service. Through a Canadian Periscope offers a colourful and thoroughly researched account of Canada's silent service from it unexpected inauguration in British Columbia on the first day of the Great War to 1995.
language: English
title: Through a Canadian Periscope: The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service
titlecomplete: Through a Canadian Periscope: The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service
ratings_count: 26
places: Canada
publisher: The Dundurn Group