"Submariners say that at sea there are only two sorts of vessels: submarines and targets; and, indeed, from their inception submarines have been hunters, elusive and difficult to counter. That they should be deployed against their own sort was inevitable and this new book chronicles the most significant of those clashes, from primitive beginnings to the dangerous high-tech, cat-and-mouse games of the Cold War made familiar in movies like Hunt for Red October"--BOOK JACKET.