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| 2982 | LAVERY, Brian. Shield of Empire: The Royal Navy and Scotland. xviii, 510p., illus., index. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2007. ISBN: 1841585130.
A competent work with a long section on World War Two and the role of Scotland in training, maintaining and manning the fleet. |
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| 2983 | LEGG, Rodney. Dorset at War: Diary of WWII. 320p., illus. Wincanton: Dorset Publishing, 1990. ISBN: 0948699167.
Set out as a diary this attempts to reconstruct the events which involved Dorset actively in the war, and the feel of life at the time, from murders to air raids and from convoy sinkings to the ploughing of public footpaths. Some relevant naval material. First published in 1986 by Wincanton Press as Dorset's War 1939–1945 (ISBN: 0948699027). |
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| 2984 | McCARRON, Ken. Fort Perch Rock and the Defence of the Mersey. iv, 78p., bibliog., illus., index. Birkenhead: Merseyside Portfolios, 1991. ISBN: 0951612913.
The fort off New Brighton was part of a major defensive system. Some marginal information on WW2. |
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| 2985 | MACDONALD, James. Churchill's Prisoners: The Italians in Orkney 1942-1944. [iv], 44p., illus. St Margaret's Hope: Orkney Wireless Museum, 1987. ISBN: 0951620002.
The story of how over one thousand Italian POWs were used to help construct the causeways – the so-called Churchill Barriers - protecting Scapa Flow. |
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| 2986 | MACDOUGALL, Philip. The Chatham Dockyard Story. 189p., bibliog., illus., index. Rochester: Rochester Press, 1981. ISBN: 0905540549.
Although there is a limited amount of material on World War Two itself, this gives an excellent background account of this major naval base. A revised second addition was published by Meresborough in 1987 (ISBN: 0948193301). |
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| 2987 | MACINNES, Charles M. Bristol at War. xi, 202p., illus., index. London: Museum Press, 1962.
More concerned with the city than the port. |
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| 2988 | MACLEOD, John. River of Fire: The Clydebank Blitz. xiii, 338p., bibliog., illus., index. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2010. ISBN: 9781843410492. 1941 brought one of the most savage wartime air raids when Clydebank and the surrounding towns and their shipyards were devastated by the Luftwaffe. A detailed account. A revised edition was published in 2011, ISBN: 9781841589688.
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| 2989 | MARSH, B. J. & ALMOND, S. The Home Port: Bootle, the Blitz and the Battle of the Atlantic. iii, 71p., bibliog., illus., index. Sefton: Metropolitan Borough of Sefton Education Department, 1993. ISBN: 095213120X.
A good heavily illustrated account of how the community in and around the docks faced the war. |
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| 2990 | MILLER, James. The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War. 176p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2003. ISBN: 1843410117.
A popular and heavily illustrated work which covers both world wars. |
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| 2991 | MILLER, James. Scapa: Britain's Famous Wartime Naval Base. 192p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000. ISBN: 1843410052.
Principally a photographic record with some excellent research. |
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| 2992 | MURRAY, Donald S. And On This Rock: The Italian Chapel Orkney. xiv, 219p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2010. ISBN: 9781841588681.
A lyrical and rather literary account of the building of the chapel by the Italian POWs working on the defences of Scapa Flow. |
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| 2993 | NORMAN, Bill. Wartime Teesside Revisited. 107p., illus. Guisborough: author, 2004. ISBN: 0954732502.
A well illustrated chronological account of wartime life in the area. Some limited naval interest. Effectively a second edition of Wartime Teesside published by Dalesman in 1989 (ISBN: 0852069812) . |
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| 2994 | PERRETT, Bryan. Liverpool: A City at War. 172pp., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 1990. ISBN: 0709040148.
Liverpool was of great strategic importance and suffered badly from German air raids as a consequence. A good account of a seaport city in the thick of the war. |
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| 2995 | POWELL, Michael. Spithead: The Navy's Anvil. 60p., illus. Winchester: Redan & Vedette, 1977. ISBN: 0950544604.
Not really a World War II volume, but gives an excellent account of the defences in the Portsmouth area, from the Hilsea Lines to Palmerston's Follies. |
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| 2996 | RICHARDS, Bill. Pembrokeshire Under Fire: The Story of the Air Raids of 1940-1941. 80p., illus. Haverfordwest: J.W. Hammond, 1965. ISBN: 1870745051.
The important flying boat base at Pembroke Dock was attacked frequently in 1940-41. It is now in a 6th edition published by Paterchurch Publications of Pembroke. |
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| 2997 | RIPPON, P. M. & MOTTRAM, Graham. Yeovilton: The History of the Royal Naval Air Station, Yeovilton, 1940-90. 95p., illus. Yeovil: Fleet Air Arm Museum, 1990. ISBN: 1870872029.
An illustrated history of the base. |
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| 2998 | ROYAL, Dennis. United States Navy Base Two: Americans at Rosneath 1941–1945. 94p., illus. Glendaruel: Douglas, 2000. ISBN: 1902831802.
Base Two was built at Rosneath in the Gareloch and housed US special forces and a squadron of submarines. |
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| 2999 | SAVIGNON, Andre. With Plymouth through Fire: A Documentary Narrative of 1940–41. 140p., illus. Penzance: Wordens of Cornwall, 1968.
An expatriate French author recounts life in the port during the heavy German air raids. |
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| 3000 | SCOTT, Vernon. An Experience Shared 1939–1945. vi, 298p., bibliog., il-lus., index. Pembroke Dock: Laleham Publications, 1992. ISBN: 0952038803. An autobiographical view of the interaction of home front and battlefront as seen from Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock where the air-sea war took place. Gives a detailed account of the ships, aircraft and men based at or passing through Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock during WW II. A second edition was published in 1993. |
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| 3001 | SMITH, Graham. Devon and Cornwall Airfields in the Second World War. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. Newbury: Countryside, 2000. ISBN: 185306632X.
Gives brief operational histories of the twenty-two airfields which contributed most notably to Coastal Command's part in the Battle of the Atlantic and to the defence of Plymouth. |
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