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| 3582 | SOPOCKO, Eryk K. S. Orzel's Patrol: The Story of the Polish Submarine. xi, 146p., illus. London: Methuen, 1942.
The author was a midshipman aboard Orzel during her escape. This book is mainly concerned with the tale of a war patrol off Norway during the German invasion in April 1940. |
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| 3583 | TROMAN, Wanda. ORP Blyskawica and its Association with Cowes. 24p., bibliog., illus. Newport, IoW: Friends of ORP Blyskawica Society, 2002. ISBN: 0948638028.
Blyskawica was built at Whites of Cowes in 1936. She was associated with the town throughout the war and famously provided anti-aircraft support when Cowes was bombed in 1942. |
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| 3584 | ZYW, Aleksander. Poles in Uniform: Sketches of the Polish Army, Navy and Air Force. Text by Edwin Muir. 128p., illus. London: Nelson, 1943.
An album of drawings illustrating the work and play of the Polish Armed Forces in Britain, from the summer of 1940 onward. The naval sketches were made onboard the destroyer Piorun. |
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| 3585 | Men of the Sea. 99p. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [c.1960].
Stirring propaganda tales, mainly from the Black Seas Fleet, but including Kolyshikin's exploits in submarines and a tale of torpedo boats with the Northern Fleet. Reprinted in 2001, with the author given as G. Gaidovsky (ISBN: 0898752329). |
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| 3586 | ACHKASOV, V., & PAVLOVICH, N. B. Soviet Naval Operations in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. xi, 393p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1981. ISBN: 0870216732
Translation of a 1973 history, by two Soviet historians who trace the development of strategy, tactics, and technology in the war. |
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| 3587 | BUDZBON, Przemyslaw. Soviet Navy at War 1941–1945 (Warships Fotofax). 46p., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1989. ISBN: 1870519205.
A selection of annotated photographs of the Soviet Fleet at war. |
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| 3588 | GOLOVKO, Arsenil. With the Red Fleet: The War Memoirs of the Late Admiral Arsenil G. Golovko. 248p., illus., index. London: Putnam, 1965.
Golovko was C-in-C of the Northern Fleet and therefore closely involved with the Arctic convoys. This is a fascinating but one-sided and often inaccurate view of the war. |
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| 3589 | ISAKOV, I. S. The Red Fleet in the Second World War. 124p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1947.
A brief general history. The particular interest lies in the presentation of the contemporary Russian view of the war in Arctic waters, from which the British emerge with small credit. |
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| 3590 | KOLYSHKIN, I. Submarines in Arctic Waters (Memoirs). 253p., frontis. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966. ISBN: 0553248103.
The wartime memoirs of Admiral Kolyshkin who commanded the Russian Arctic submarines based on Polyarnoe. Provides an interesting alternative account of the Arctic sea war. |
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| 3591 | MEISTER, Jurg. The Soviet Navy (Navies of the Second World War). 2 vols., illus. London: Macdonald; New York: Doubleday, 1972. ISBN: 0356030431 (Vol. 1); 035603044X (Vol.2).
Volume One covers capital ships and volume two covers minor surface vessels. As always in this series technical details are given by class. Only two of four planned volumes seem to have been published. |
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| 3592 | MEISTER, Jurg. Soviet Warships of the Second World War. [vi], 348p., illus. London: Macdonald & Jane's; New York: Arco, 1977. ISBN: 0668040866.
A guide by ship type and class, which includes vessels transferred under Lend-Lease. Notes on their operation and fate are included. |
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| 3593 | MITCHELL, Mairin. The Red Fleet and the Royal Navy. 98p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942.
A description of the fleet of Britain's new ally, its potential and how cooperation must increase. |
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| 3594 | RUGE, Friedrich. The Soviets as Naval Opponents 1941–1945. vi, 210p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge: PSL; Annapolis: NIP, 1979. ISBN: 0850593905.
Admiral Ruge presents Soviet naval activities as they appeared to the German side in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Arctic; this last deals in passing with the Arctic convoys. |
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| 3595 | WESTWOOD, J. N.. Russian Naval Construction 1905–45. 251p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan/Birmingham UP, 1994. ISBN: 0333555538. Examines how the types, numbers and designs of Russian warships were determined in the years preceding the two World Wars, with the three-way interplay of naval staff, naval designers and political leaders, resulting in fleets that contained some outstanding units but which were, on the whole, inappropriate to the tasks set by those wars.. |
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| 3596 | WOODWARD, David. The Russians at Sea. 255p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1965; New York: Praeger, 1966.
In some 20 pages only the sparsest details are given of the Soviet naval effort in WWII. |
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| 3597 | There Was a Ship. 32p., illus. [Philadelphia: Buchanan, 1945?].
A contemporary account of the career of USS Madison which saw action in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from 1940 to 1944 before moving to the Pacific early in 1945. Has many line drawings of her activities. |
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| 3598 | ALDEN, John D. US Submarine Attacks During World War II. xxxii, 286p., bibliog., index. Annapolis: USNIP, 1989. ISBN: 0870217674.
Published in the same format as Rohwer's work on the Axis, it also includes all Allied successes in the Far East. |
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| 3599 | BACHMAN, B. M. An Honorable Profession. xx, 232p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Vantage, 1985. ISBN: 0533060745.
A biography of Rear Admiral J. D. Bulkeley, a Medal of Honor winner who commanded PT boats in the Phillipines and went on to hold senior posts at the Dragoon and Neptune seaborne assaults. |
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| 3600 | BALLANTINE, Duncan S. US Naval Logistics in the Second World War. 308p., bibliog., index. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1947.
An administrative history. |
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| 3601 | BEVAN, Denys. United States Forces in New Zealand 1942–1945. 408p., bibliog., illus., index. Alexandra, N.Z.: Macpherson, 1992. ISBN: 0908900074.
A fact-rich but analytically poor attempt to cover every aspect of the relationship between the two countries from shipbuilding to war brides. |
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