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| 182 | ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Uruguayan Blue Book: The Documents Relating to the Sinking of the Admiral Graf Spee and the Internment of the Merchant Vessel Tacoma. 95p. London: Hutchinson, [1940].
Concerned only with the events which took place after the arrival of Graf Spee in Montevideo. |
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| 183 | POPE, Dudley. The Battle of the River Plate. 259p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1956; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.
A full account of the background to and course of the battle by a naval historian. A revised edition was published in paperback in 1974. US title: Graf Spee: The Life and Death of a Raider. The book was again reprinted in its revised form in 1987 by Alison Press. (ISBN: 0436377500). |
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| 184 | POWELL, Michael. Graf Spee. 224p.,frontis. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956.
Powell directed a film about the Battle of the River Plate. This spin-off book was written as a popular adventure story aiming at feel rather than historical accuracy. US title: Death in the South Atlantic. Reprinted in 1976 by White Lion as The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee. |
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| 185 | STRABOLGI, [J. M. K.] Lord. The Battle of the River Plate. xxxvi, 238p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1940].
A patriotic account of the sinking of the Graf Spee. This is the first of a series of volumes by a naval officer who attempts to present the public with a relatively objective view of the war. |
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| 186 | WATERS, Sydney D. Achilles at the River Plate (New Zealand in the Second World War. Official History). 32p., illus. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1948.
An illustrated pamphlet glorifying the New Zealand contribution. |
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| 187 | WHITEHEAD, Ken, & CHAPMAN, Janet. Memories of the Battle of the River Plate by Those Who Were There. iv, 43p., illus. Harlow: D & J, 1989.
A sort of oral history memoir or collection of anecdotes. |
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| 188 | WIGGAN, Richard. Hunt the Altmark. 176p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 1982. ISBN: 0709197373.
The brief but notorious wartime career of the Graf Spee's supply ship in a popularised account. |
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| 189 | WOODMAN, Richard. The Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion. x, 164p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword: Annapolis; NIP, 2008. ISBN: 1844156893.
A good work by a major historian. It gives a detailed reconstruction of the last cruise of the Graf Spee and aims to reassess the final battle and its implications. |
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| 190 | ADAMS, Jack. The Doomed Expedition: The Norwegian Campaign of 1940. xiv, 199p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1989. ISBN: 0850520363.
A good if patchy account to mark the fiftieth anniversary. Written by a soldier it makes no attempt to give an analysis of naval matters, but still is of interest. |
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| 191 | ADAMSON, Hans C., & KLEM, Per. Blood on the Midnight Sun. 282p., bibliog., illus. New York: Norton, 1964.
Looks at several of the war's aspects in Norway, the removal of the gold reserves by British cruisers being one of them. |
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| 192 | ASH, Bernard. Norway 1940. xii, 340p., bibliog., illus, index. London: Cassell, 1964.
Mainly concerned with the land campaign, this nevertheless gives a good account of the war at sea. |
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| 193 | BOYLE, W. H., Earl of Cork and Orrery. My Naval Life 1886-1941. 208p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1942.
Only the last 10 pages are concerned with the author's career in WWII and the date of publication led to heavy censorship, particularly of his role in the Norwegian Campaign. |
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| 194 | BROCH, Theodor. The Mountains Wait. 192p., illus. St. Paul, Minn.: Webb, 1942; London: Joseph, 1943.
The mayor of Narvik tells his story of the Norwegian Campaign and of some of the naval actions. |
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| 195 | BROOKES, Ewart. Prologue to a War: The Navy’s Part in the Narvik Campaign. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Jarrold; New York: Nelson Foster & Scott, 1966.
A popular study based on secondary sources. Reprinted by White Lion in 1977 (ISBN: 0727402404). |
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| 196 | CURTIS, Monica. Norway and the War September 1939-December 1940 (Documents on International Affairs). x, 154p. London: OUP, 1941.
A special issue of the Documents series, due to wartime conditions. Contains various documents on the Altmark incident as well as on the German invasion of Norway. |
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| 197 | DERRY, T. K. The Campaign in Norway (Official History of the Second World War. UK Military Series). xvi, 289p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1952.
The official British account and the first of the official histories. Reprinted by the IWM with source annotations in 1996. |
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| 198 | DICKENS, Peter. Narvik: Battles in the Fiords (Sea Battles in Close-Up, 9). 184p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Ian Allan; Annapolis: NIP, 1974. ISBN: 0711004846.
A detailed examination of the First and Second Battles of Narvik. Another of the very good small accounts in this series. |
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| 199 | EVANS, Edward, 1st Baron Mountevans. Adventurous Life. 259p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, 1946.
Evans of the Broke went to the Antarctic with Scott, fought famously in World War I in the Dover Straits and served in Africa, China and Australia between the wars. He had a brief but notable involvement in the Norwegian campaign. |
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| 200 | HAARR, Geirr H. The Battle for Norway April - June 1940. vi, 458p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2010. ISBN: 9781848320574.
The second volume of this excellent history takes the story to the end of the Allied evacuation. |
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| 201 | HAARR, Geirr H. The German Invasion of Norway April 1940. iv, 474p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2009. ISBN: 9781848320321.
A very detailed account by a Norwegian of Operation Weserubung and the response to it from the Allies. Particularly strong on the neglected Norwegian response. |
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