| Entry Text: | GORDON-CUMMING, H. R. Official History of the South African Naval Forces during the Second World War (1939-45). xix, 352p., illus., index. Simon's Town: Naval Heritage Trust of South Africa, 2008. ISBN: 0620432764. The first narrative of the South African Naval Forces during the Second World War was written by Cdr H.R. Gordon-Cumming for the Union War Histories Section in the Office of the Prime Minister and appears to have been completed in December 1950. A number of chapters from this work were included in War In the Southern Oceans 1939-45 which was published by OUP in 1961.This was co-authored by Gordon-Cumming, and became known as the “short history”, drawing on material now published in full for the first time as the “long history”. |
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