For most of her crew, HMS Retaliate's Baltic cruise in 1960s is a routine one, and her sixteen nuclear missiles no more than a silent threat to the Russians. But the submarine's captain, Commander Shadde, is obsessed with the communist menace and haunted by the memory of his one act of cowardice. As the submarine approaches the end of her voyage, a letter from his wife threatening divorce pushes Shadde to the brink of madness in a vessel where nuclear war is just a button away...

Some secrets are worth dying for… The Russian Delta Two class ballistic missile submarine is the deadliest warship afloat, capable of destroying sixteen of the world’s largest cities. Captained by Comrade Yenev, The Zhukov — a recently launched prototype — is on a top-secret test run skirting Norwegian waters. But in a disastrous accident its cover is blown when an internal explosion cripples the submarine, forcing it to run ashore on Norwegian soil. Despite the Soviet’s attempts at damage limitation, intelligence services from around the world rush to the spot, all desperate to learn the secrets of its new, advanced technologies. Among the reconnaissance planes and...

Togo Tashimoto, captain of the Japanese submarine I-357 and a ruthless disciplinarian steeped in the samurai tradition; and John Barratt, captain of HMS Restless, haunted by his wife's death while a prisoner of the Japanese in Changi Jail; were two very different men whose destinies were linked in the deadly game of hide and seek they were to play out among the islands and atolls of the Mozambique coast. Homeward bound after a disappointing patrol in the Indian Ocean, Yashimoto encounters an unescorted American freighter making for Cape Delgado. To conserve his remaining torpedoes he decides to attack by gunfire. In the night action which follows he sinks the Fort Nebraska, but not...

Читайте в пятом томе приложения «ПОДВИГ» 1972 года произведения английского и южноафриканского писателей: • повесть Нормана Льюиса «ОХОТА В ЛАГАРТЕРЕ» (Norman Lewis, A Small War Made to Order, 1966); • роман Энтони Ф. Трю «ЗА ДВА ЧАСА ДО ТЕМНОТЫ» (Antony Francis Trew, Two Hours to Darkness, 1963).

Произведения, составившие сборник, написаны в жанре повести-предупреждения и посвящены самой животрепещущей проблеме современности: страшной реальности возникновения ядерного конфликта. В сборник вошли: повесть Хассо Грабнера «Операция «Норск гидро» (ГДР), роман Энтони Трю «За два часа до темноты» (Великобритания) и два произведения американских писателей — роман Мартина Кэйдина «Почти в полночь» и рассказ Конни Уиллис «Письмо от Клири».