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| 342 | MILNER, Marc. Battle of the Atlantic. 255p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Tempus; St Catharines, Ont., 2003.ISBN: 0752428535.
A concise but comprehensive retelling of the battle presenting a distinctive revisionist viewpoint by a major historian. |
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| 343 | NESBIT, Roy Conyers. The Battle of the Atlantic. iv, 276p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton, 2002. ISBN: 075092912X.
An unusual account written by an airman and very profusely illustrated. |
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| 344 | NIMITZ, Chester W., ADAMS, Henry H., & POTTER, E. B. Triumph in the Atlantic: The Naval Struggle against the Axis. iv, 188p., illus., index. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
A concise American account of the sea war, being a revised section of the authors' earlier work Sea Power. |
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| 345 | NOLI, Jean. The Admiral’s Wolf Pack. 396p., bibliog. Garden City: Doubleday, 1974. ISBN: 0385003722.
A popular history first published in France and based on the recollections of former U-boat crewmen. |
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| 346 | PEILLARD, Leonce. U-boats to the Rescue: The Laconia Incident. 270p., illus. London: Cape; New York: Putnam; Don Mills, Ont.: Longman, 1963.
The Laconia was torpedoed in the South Atlantic while carrying German and Italian POW's to the United States. U-boats attempted to mount a rescue operation, but ceased when attacked by Allied aircraft. US title: The Laconia Affair. |
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| 347 | PITT, Barrie. The Battle of the Atlantic. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Alexandria: Time-Life International, 1977. ISBN: 0705405265.
Some excellent photo sequences, but often uncritical in its use of original sources. |
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| 348 | PRIM, Joseph, & McCARTHY, Mike. Those in Peril: The U-Boat Menace to Allied Shipping in Newfoundland and Labrador Waters, World War I and World War II. 176p., bibliog., illus., index. St. John's: Jesperson, 1995. ISBN: 092169265X.
A well-researched mixture of local history and personal reminiscences, mainly on WWII. |
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| 349 | RAYNER, D. A. Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic, by Commander D. A. Rayner, edited by Captain S. W. Roskill. 250, [vi]p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1955.
He served in the trawler Loch Tulla in an A/S role at Scapa at the start of the war and in late 1940 took command of the new corvette Verbena. She served in the Atlantic then moved to Freetown early in 1942. After a spell with the Eastern Fleet he took command of Shikari in the North Atlantic. Nine months later he took over Warwick, in which he was sunk. He at once moved to Highlander, but soon took over 30EG in Pevensey Castle where he stayed until taking a shore appointment in 1945. A good story. |
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| 350 | ROBERTSON, Terence. Walker, R.N.: The Story of Captain Frederic John Walker, CB, DSO and Three Bars, RN. 215p., illus., index. London: Evans, 1956: New York: Bantam, 1979.
A biography of one of the great fighting commanders of the battle of the Atlantic. Reprinted by White Lion in 1976. US title: Escort Commander. |
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| 351 | RUNYAN, Timothy J., & COPES, Jan M. To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic. xxvi, 346p., bibliog., illus., index. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1994. ISBN: 0813388155.
Papers from a 1992 conference with many of the best known historians of the period exploring then current thinking. Has an American perspective. |
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| 352 | SADLER, John. Blood on the Wave: Scottish Sea Battles x, 246p., bibliog., illus., index. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2010. ISBN: 9781841588650.
An anecdotal account which includes a chapter on the Second World War and in particular the Battle of the Atlantic. |
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| 353 | SARTY, Roger. Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic. 167, [vii]p., bibliog., illus. Montreal: Art Global, 1998. ISBN: 2920718657.
One of an officially sponsored series, which provides a popular history of Canadian involvement in the war. Well illustrated from contemporary photographs and recollections. |
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| 354 | SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallmann. U-Boat Command and the Battle of the Atlantic. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Conway, 1989. ISBN: 0851774873.
An attempt to see the battle through the eyes of the German High Command. |
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| 355 | SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallman. U-Boats Attack! The Battle of the Atlantic Witnessed By the Wolf Packs. 224p., illus., index. Stroud: History Press, 2011. ISBN: 0752461885.
Tells the story of this battle as viewed through the conning towers of the U-boats. Uses surviving logs, written as the action unfolded. |
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| 356 | SNOW, Richard. A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II. x, 356p., bibliog., illus. index. New York: Scribner, 2010. ISBN: 9781416591108.
A very well written American view of the battle, with the later chapters based in part on his father's letters home from the DE Neunzer. |
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| 357 | STICK, David. Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast. ix, 276p., bibliog., illus., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1952]. Published too close to the end of the war to have more than a dozen pages of the sparsest information. Published too close to the end of the war to have more than a dozen pages of the sparsest information. Reprinted in 1989, ISBN: 0807842613. |
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| 358 | SWETTENHAM, John. Canada’s Atlantic War. [vi], 154p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Samuel-Stevens, 1979. ISBN: 0888666047.
With over 200 illustrations, this is aimed at the average Canadian reader. It is, in fact, a fairly general account of the war at sea, stressing Canada’s contribution. |
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| 359 | SYRETT, David, ed. The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Situations and Trends, 1941-1945. (Navy Records Society Publication 139). xl, 628p., bibliog. Aldershot: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 1998. ISBN: 1840142952.
The U-boat situation and trend reports were prepared weekly and sometimes daily by Rear Admiral J. W. Clayton and Commander Rodger Winn and show the exact and changing state of British knowledge of German intentions. |
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| 360 | SYRETT, David, ed. The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Tracking Papers, 1941-1947. (Navy Records Society Publication 144). xiv, 464p., bibliog., index. Aldershot: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2002. ISBN: 0754631230.
A selection of papers written by British and American naval intelligence officers demonstrating how communications intelligence was used. |
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| 361 | TERRAINE, John. Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945. xx, 841p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1989. ISBN: 1840222018.
A monumental and excellent work by a leading military historian. Published by Putnam Adult in the US as The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945.(ISBN: 9780399132919). |
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