Author Talk: 'Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander' With Alfred Scott McLaren

Join us as Alfred Scott McLaren will speak about and sign his new book, Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander at the Coronado Public Library.

Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander conveys the entire spectrum of Captain McLaren’s experiences commanding the USS Queenfish, mainly in the waters of the Russian Far East and also off Vietnam. McLaren offers a riveting and deeply human story that illuminates the intensity and pressures of commanding a nuclear attack submarine in some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable.

Relying on his own notes and records, as well as discussions with former officers and shipmates, McLaren focuses on operational matters both great and small. He recounts his unique perspectives on attack-submarine tactics and exploratory techniques in high-risk or uncharted areas, matters of leadership and team-building and the morale of his crews, and the innumerable and often unforeseen ways his philosophy of command played out on a day-to-day basis, with consequences that ran the gamut from the mundane to the dire and life-threatening.

Date | Thursday, October 14 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location | Coronado Public Library

More information:
• Copies of the book will be available for purchase thanks to Bay Books Coronado.
• This event is free to attend.
• The talk will be recorded and available for on demand viewing on the Library's Facebook and YouTube pages following the event.

For more information, please visit live-coronado.pantheonsite.io/alfred-scott-mclaren or call (619) 522-7390.