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| 3542 | LE MASSON, Henri. The French Navy (Navies of the Second World War). 2 vols., illus. London: Macdonald; Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. ISBN: 0356023842 (Vol. ); 0356023850 (Vol. 2).
Volume 1 covers capital ships, destroyers, and submarines. Volume 2 covers sloops, corvettes, minesweepers, and small craft. Both are pocketbooks giving technical details by class. |
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| 3543 | L'HERMINIER, Jean. Casabianca: The Secret Missions of a Famous Submarine. xii, 243p., illus. London: Muller, [1953].
The commander of the submarine recounts its exploits from April 1942 to September 1943. In reserve in Toulon, she escaped the German coup de main of November 1942 and sailed to join the Allies. She then served in the Mediterranean until the liberation of France. |
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| 3544 | MACCLOSKEY, Monro. Rearming the French in World War II. 189p., bibliog., illus. New York: Rosen, 1972. ISBN: 0823902544.
A strategic view of American policy in this area. |
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| 3545 | ROUSSELOT, H. L. G. Rubis/Free French Submarine (Profile Warship, 26). 25–48pp., bibliog., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1973.
Really an account of her wartime operational career. |
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| 3546 | RUSBRIDGER, James. Who Sank Surcouf? The Truth about the Disappearance of the Pride of the French Navy. xiii, 209p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Century, 1991. ISBN: 0712639756.
A fully researched work which destroys most of the myths surrounding the fate of Surcouf, lost mysteriously in February 1942 amid suspicions of her loyalty to the Allies. The author does add some new information about her loss, but broadly concludes that the official explanation is most likely to be correct. |
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| 3547 | VADER, John. The Fleet without a Friend. 160p., bibliog., illus. London: New English Library, 1971. ISBN: 0450010031.
Mainly concerned with the fate of the French Fleet at the armistice in 1940, although a general account of its wartime exploits is given. A disappointing account of a neglected area. |
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| 3548 | YOUNG, George. Who Killed Surcouf? 103p., bibliog., illus. Lunenburg, N.S.: Lunenburg County Print, 1986. ISBN: 0920454062.
The mystery of Surcouf's loss is explored and many inconsistencies in the official explanation brought out. Scraps of rumour, gossip, and hearsay are then used to produce an unconvincing alternative answer. A second, slightly expanded edition was published by the author in 1991. |
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| 3549 | BOSSCHER, Ph. M. De Koninklijke Marine in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. 3 vols., bibliog., illus., index. Franeker: Van Wijnen, 1984–1990. ISBN: 9061353718 (Vol. 1); 9061353726 (Vol. 2); 905194022X (Vol. 3).
An excellent and relatively easy to follow account with a very brief English summary. |
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| 3550 | DIVINE, A. D. The Royal Netherlands Navy. 22p., illus. [London?: n.p., 1942?].
A brief account of the Fall of the Netherlands, and of the Dutch East Indies, from the naval point of view. An enlarged edition was published by the Netherlands Information Bureau in New York in 1944(?). Very similar to Queen Wilhelmina's Navy. |
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| 3551 | FRANKS, H. George. Holland Afloat. 176p., illus. London: Netherlands Publishing, 1942.
An uplifting account of the wartime feats of the Dutch Navy and a brief history of their past glories and future prospects. |
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| 3552 | HURST, Doug. The Fourth Ally: The Dutch Forces in Australia in World War II. viii, 188p., bibliog., illus., index. Chapman, ACT: author, 2001. ISBN: 0957925204.
The Dutch joined with the US, British and Australians as a fourth ally, providing the bulk of allied merchant shipping in the Pacific, operating a fleet of warships and submarines as well as aircraft and running specialist army units. Covers the Japanese invasion of the Indies, the evacuation to Australia, the Dutch part in the allied fight out of Australia and their post war return to the Indies. Includes personal recollections and anecdotes. |
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| 3553 | KROESE, A. The Dutch Navy at War. iv, 131p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1945.
This account of the Dutch Navy in action deals mainly with events in the Far East, where the author commanded Kortenaer, torpedoed in the Battle of the Java Sea. |
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| 3554 | LARIVE, E. H. The Man Who Came from Colditz. 192p., illus. London: Hale, 1975. ISBN: 070914816X.
The author was a Dutch Naval Officer who fought in the Netherlands in 1940 and refused to give the Germans his parole. In 1941 he escaped from Colditz and reached England via Switzerland and Spain. He took command of MTB 203, based at Dover and in 1944 was promoted to be SNO for Dutch coastal forces based at Dover. He ended the war in a staff post |
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| 3555 | LENTON, H. T. Royal Netherlands Navy (Navies of the Second World War). 160p., illus. London: Macdonald; Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. ISBN: 0356015092.
Another of the pocket book series describing an important Allied Navy, broken by the Germans and Japanese but rebuilt in exile. |
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| 3556 | MÜNCHING, L. L. von. De Nederlandse Koopvaardijvloot in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. 2 vols., bibliog., illus., index. Middelburg: Den Boer, 1978–86. ISBN: 9022819817 (Vol. 1); 9070027917 (Vol. 2).
Although not in English, the Dutch Merchant Fleet was of such importance that this excellent history is worth listing - and proves surprisingly easy to use. |
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| 3557 | NETHERLANDS. Government Information Bureau. Queen Wilhelmina's Navy. 25p., illus. London: HMSO, 1943.
A short account of Dutch naval activities since the invasion in 1940. It follows the style of British Ministry of Information booklets. |
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| 3558 | QUISPEL, Hubert J. The Job and the Tools. 184p., illus. Rotterdam: Nederlandsche Vereenigde Scheepsbouw Bureaux, 1960.
A full operational account of wartime action with a brief section on the rebirth of the post-war Navy. |
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| 3559 | VAN OOSTEN, F. C. Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship De Ruyter (Profile Warship, 40). 73–96pp., bibliog., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1974.
The last item of this series covers the large Dutch cruiser sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea while ABDA flagship. It is a largely technical description which does, however, also give details of her last fight. |
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| 3560 | ABELSEN, Frank. Marinens Fartøyer 1939–1945 og deres Skjebne: Norwegian Naval Ships 1939–1945. 304p., bibliog., illus. Oslo: Sem & Stenersen, 1986. ISBN: 8270460508.
An exhaustive and fully illustrated listing of all Norwegian vessels from capital ships to floating cranes. There is also some general history of their wartime doings. Each section has a short English translation summarising the fuller Norwegian text. Limited to 2,000 copies. |
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| 3561 | JOHNSON, Amanda. Norway, Her Invasion and Occupation. xii, 372p., bibliog., illus., index. Decatur: Bowen, 1948.
A history of Norway in the war - the invasion, the occupation, and the role of the fighting exiles. |
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