This unique memoir charts the career of the author in the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the period 1967 to 1997, and in doing so details many of the Silent Service's remarkable achievements since the end of the Second World War. And it provides a dramatic first-hand account of the underwater confrontation during the Cold War between submarines of the West and the huge submarine force of the Soviet Union. Dan Conley narrates the successive stages from his basic submarine training to t...

A British nuclear submariner sheds critical light on the Royal Navy's Cold War operations in this revealing military memoir.The role played by the Royal Navy's submarines throughout the Cold War remains largely shrouded in secrecy. In Cold War Command, Captain Dan Conley, RN (Ret.), offers an insider's look at commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines. As captain of the HMS Courageous and HMS Valiant, Conley was tasked with covertly foll...

Things We Can't See is the third in Dan Conley's Scene By Scene series examining influential films. It examines the 2020 Edward Yang film "Yi Yi" noting the film's unique style and anti-dramatic storytelling style.