Thanks to Tom Clancy, submarines have assumed a good deal of importance in the collective imagination of the Cold War. Norman Polmar's Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001 turns a number of common conceptions about submarines on their head. Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs, 1935-53 by by Mikhail Monakov and Jurgen Rohwer examines the fitful Stalinist naval expansion. Eric Grove's From Vanguard to Trident covers the problems a declining Britain had in maintaining its naval power in the global Cold War. Collisions and other forms of naval chicken were one of the features of the Cold War and Cold War at Sea: High-Seas Confrontation Between the United States and the Soviet Union by David Winkler explores this dimension of the Cold War.