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| 3562 | LINDBAEK, Lisa. Norway's New Saga of the Sea: The Story of her Merchant Marine in World War II. 251p. New York: Exposition, 1969.
An expanded and updated version of a book first published in Norwegian in 1943. It is an anthology of popular tales of the vicissitudes suffered by the enormous exiled Norwegian Merchant Marine. |
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| 3563 | NAESS, Erling D. Erling D. Naess: Autobiography of a Shipping Man. 266p. Colchester: Sea Trade, 1977. ISBN: 0905597079.
The autobiography of an entrepreneur. Already a shipowner in 1939, he made a daring escape when Norway was invaded and reached England. He then blackmailed his way to New York where he spent the war involved administering the Norwegian Merchant Marine. |
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| 3564 | NYQUIST, R. B. Fighting Norsemen. 80p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1944].
How the Norwegian Forces in exile were set up and a record of some of their successes, including those by naval units. |
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| 3565 | OLSEN, Oluf Reed. Two Eggs on My Plate. 298, [vi]p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1952.
The author escaped from occupied Norway in a small boat, was rescued off the Thames estuary, served in Coastal Command, and then went back to help organise resistance in Norway. |
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| 3566 | ROYAL NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT. Arctic War: Norway's Part in the Northern Front. 65p., illus. London: HMSO, 1945.
A propaganda pamphlet which includes a brief account of the destroyer Stord's part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst. |
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| 3567 | ROYAL NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT. Information Office. Norway's Floating Empire. 40p., illus. London: Royal Norwegian Government Information Office, c.1943.
A propaganda pamphlet covering everything from the Vikings to the struggle against the Nazis. Has some useful data. |
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| 3568 | SALMON, Patrick. Britain and Norway in the Second World War. xx, 259p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1995. ISBN: 0117012327.
Proceedings of a fiftieth anniversary conference which in 25 papers covers all aspects of the relationship from the battles in 1940 through civil and military operations of the government in exile, raids and special operations, and the liberation. |
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| 3569 | WHITSON, Angus & ORR, Andrew. Sea Dog Bamse: World War II Canine Hero. xviii, 190p., bibliog., illus., index Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008. ISBN: 1841587486.
This St Bernard served on a Norwegian minesweeper based at Montrose then Dundee and became the mascot of the Norwegian Armed Forces. |
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| 3570 | Polish Navy. 36p., illus. [London: n.p., 1944?].
An official or semi-official pamphlet describing the war record of the Polish Navy both before and after the German occupation, with some background detail. |
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| 3571 | BAGINSKI, Henryk. Poland's Freedom of the Sea. 2nd Edition. viii, 137p., bibliog., illus., index. Kirkcaldy: Allen Lithographic Co., 1942.
A treatise on the importance to Poland of a Baltic coastline. Each edition up to the fourth of 1944 grew in size and recorded more of the fight by the Polish Navy and Merchant Marine against the Germans. Originally published in Poland prewar, it was rewritten and translated to produce this edition after the German invasion. |
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| 3572 | CZARNOMSKI, F. B. They Fight for Poland: The War in the First Person. 284, [2]p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1941.
Uplifting tales of Polish gallantry. Four chapters are devoted to the Navy and cover Orzel's escape, the sinking of Grom off Norway, the sinking of the City of Benares, and the sinking of Pilsudski. |
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| 3573 | FIEDLER, Arkady. Thank You, Captain, Thank You. 146p., illus. London: Maxlove, 1945.
Seven encouraging tales of Polish merchant ships at war. |
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| 3574 | HAZELL, Martin. Poles Apart: Polish Naval Memories of World War Two (Southwest Maritime History Society Maritime Monograph 6). [vi], 127p., bibliog., illus. Exeter: Southwest Maritime History Society, 2007. ISBN: 9780952645542.
A very personal account by a history teacher who was adopted but whose father was a Polish naval officer. A mix of history and personal reminiscence. |
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| 3575 | IRVING, David. Accident: The Death of General Sikorski. 231p., illus. London: Kimber, 1967. ISBN: 0718304209.
A re-examination of the death of General Sikorski in a plane crash at Gibraltar in 1943. The Polish destroyer Orkan carried his body to the United Kingdom for burial. |
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| 3576 | KASPEREK, Kazimierz J. Kazik's Polish Navy. xvi, 240p., illus. Melbourne, FL: Terra Sancta, 2008. ISBN: 096534672.
Conversations and wartime anecdotes linked into the tale of the Polish Navy. Kasperek escaped a German POW camp and made his way to England and served on Kujawiak, in which he was sunk and then Garland. |
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| 3577 | KLECZKOWSKI, Stefan. Poland's First 100,000: Story of the Rebirth of the Polish Army, Navy and Air Force after the September Campaign, Together with a Biographical Note about Its Creator, General Wl. Sikorski. 96p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1943]. A patriotic work which includes a chapter telling of the deeds of the Polish Navy and Mercantile Marine. A revised edition of the book was published in 1945. |
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| 3578 | KOSIARZ, Edmund. Poles on the Seas 1939–1945. 136p., illus. Lodz: Interpress, 1969.
A communist glorification of a fine fighting force. |
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| 3579 | PESZKE, Michael Alfred. Poland's Navy 1918–1945. 222p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Hippocrene, 1999. ISBN: 0781806720.
Written to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the Polish Navy. A very flat account overly rich in detail, it is nevertheless a well-researched work and the first full history in English. |
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| 3580 | PESZKE, Michael Alfred. The Polish Navy in the Second World War: A Historical Sketch. 140, [2]p., bibliog., illus. London: Polish Naval Association, 1989.
An excellent and well-researched brief history, badly let down by an excessive number of typesetting errors. |
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| 3581 | PRUSZYNSKI, Ksawery. Poland Fights Back. 216p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941.
A fairly general account of the Polish forces in Britain. There are some tales of the Polish Navy. |
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