"I wasn't welcome," the title of this book has the silhouette of a submarine on the cover. A strong title that announces a crisp story of a journalist embarked for a mission on a French nuclear submarine: the first woman in the closed door of a nuclear submarine.
It is obvious that the secret surrounding the missions of this kind of device would not be revealed in a book. What can we then discover in these pages? Nathalie Guilbert, journalist at Le Monde, endeavours to draw up portraits of the men who animate these machines. How do they live the 4 months of mission? How do they occupy their days? Their night? What's the difference when you're in a black box that can't see the sun?
I immersed myself in this book to learn more about what happens on these ships that cross under our hulls. How the 75 crew live and sail. I discovered a universe of absolute proximity where everyone, without exception, takes on them to avoid the slightest conflict. Life under water, cut off from all contact, commands respect.
A thrill ran through me, when during this reading I discovered that pleasure yachts do not fit on the sonars of submarines. How then to do immersion without risk? How do you avoid shock if you're only lucky?
This book shows us the commitment of these men and the complexity of living long in this metal casing. But if the book gave me some details about how these nuclear devices work, I didn't like the title on seller. Indeed, the journalist does not stop repeating that sailors had pleasure in giving themselves up:"It is too rare that we come to be interested in our lives so ready". Why headline that she wasn't expected there? The content of the book is enough to ensure its promotion, no need to add a title that will inevitably disappoint the reader..
Nathalie Guibert
Paulsen Publishing
192 pages
15.3 x 21 cm
18,50 €
