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| 3943 | WILLIAMSON, Gordon, & PAVLOVIC, Darko. U-Boat Crews 1914–45 (Elite Series, 60). 64p., illus. London: Osprey, 1995. ISBN: 9781855325456. A heavily illustrated basic guide to technology, training, tactics, and uniforms. |
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| 3944 | WYNN, Kenneth. U-Boat Operations of the Second World War. 2 vols., bibliog., illus., index. London: Chatham, 1997–98. ISBN: 1861760248 (Vol. ); 1557508623 (Vol. 2).
Boat-by-boat patrol details. |
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| 3945 | BAGNASCO, Erminio. The Littorio Class: Italy's Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948. 32p., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9781848321052.
A heavily illustrated guide covering both design and operational history. |
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| 3946 | BAGNASCO, Erminio, & BRESCIA, Maurizio. La Mimetizzazione delle Navi Italiane 1940-1945/ Italian Navy Camouflage 1940-1945. 239p., bibliog., illus., index. Parma: Ermanno Albertelli Editore, 2006. ISBN: 8887372519.
A largely illustrated technical work. |
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| 3947 | BAGNASCO, Erminio & CERNUSCHI, Enrico. Le Navi Da Guerra Italiane 1940-1945. Italian Warships of World War Two. 359p., bibliog., illus., index. Parma: Ermanno Albertelli Editore, 2003. ISBN: 8887372365.
Although largely written in Italian, the captions of the heavily illustrated volume are bilingual, while the leading details of the various ships and classes are readily understood. |
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| 3948 | BAGNASCO, Erminio, & GROSSMAN, Mark. Regia Marina: Italian Battleships of World War Two. 74p., illus. Missoula, Pictorial Histories Publishing , 1987. ISBN: 0933126751.
A heavily illustrated design and operational history. |
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| 3949 | BORGHESE, J. Valerio. Sea Devils. 263p., illus. London: Melrose, 1952; Chicago: Regnery, 1954.
The story of Italian experience with underwater attack teams and fast assault craft. The author was one of the leading participants and much of the story is told through his career. Reprinted in 1995. |
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| 3950 | BRAGADIN, Marc' Antonio. The Italian Navy in World War II. xviii, 380p., illus., index. Annapolis: USNIP, 1957.
The fullest and still the best history, but inevitably one-sided in its view of events. |
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| 3951 | BRESCIA, Maurizio. Mussolini's Navy: A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina 1930-1945. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Seaforth: Barnsley, 2012. ISBN: 9781848321151.
Covers the background, organisation, support facilities and operations both before and after the armistice. |
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| 3952 | COCCHIA, Aldo. Submarines Attacking: Adventures of Italian Naval Forces. 204, [4]p., illus. London: Kimber, 1956; Annapolis: USNIP, 1958.
Admiral Cocchia gives an anecdotal history of the Italian Fleet before the armistice, ranging from the Bordeaux Submarine Fleet to the sinking of the Roma. US title: The Hunters and the Hunted. |
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| 3953 | FRACCAROLI, Aldo. Italian Warships of World War II. 204p., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1968. ISBN: 0711000026.
Another of the excellent series of pocket-sized guides to the participant Navies of WWII. |
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| 3954 | FRACCAROLI, Aldo. RN Zara (Profile Warship, 17). 97–120pp., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1972.
A full account of her war career and in particular of the Battle of Matapan where she was sunk. |
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| 3955 | GAY, Franco, & GAY, Valerio. Bartolomeo Colleoni (Anatomy of the Ship). 324p., illus. Greenwich: Conway, 1987. ISBN: 0870219006
Another in the series which looks at the construction of individual ships in fine detail. Has a consistent and irritating inability properly to spell HMAS "Sidney." |
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| 3956 | GREENE, Jack & MASSIGNANI, Alessandro. The Black Prince and the Sea Devils: The Story of Valerio Borghese and the Elite Units of the Decima MAS. xx, 284p.,bibliog., illus., index Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004. ISBN: 0306813114.
A biography of the legendary commander of the elite unit. |
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| 3957 | MALLETT, Robert. The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 1935–1940. xiv, 240p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cass, 1998. ISBN: 0714648787.
Italian naval policy from Abyssinia to World War II. |
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| 3958 | MAUGERI, Franco. From the Ashes of Disgrace. viii, 376p., index. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1948].
War memoirs-cum-war history from the Director of Italian Naval Intelligence. |
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| 3959 | SADKOVICH, James J. The Italian Navy in World War II. xx, 379p., bibliog., illus., index. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1994. ISBN: 031328797X.
An attempt to resuscitate the reputation of the Italian Navy. They were weak but not cowardly, hampered by shortages of material, and showed much greater courage than in the racist fiction portrayed by most historians. |
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| 3960 | SCHOFIELD, William, & CARISELLA, P. J. Frogmen: First Battles. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Boston: Brandon, 1987. ISBN: 0828319987.
A popular account of the exploits of the renowned 10th MAS. "They blasted trails of destruction from Cadiz to Crete, from Alexandria to Gibraltar . . . " |
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| 3961 | TOSCHI, Elios. Ninth Time Lucky. 216p., frontis. London: Kimber, 1955.
Toschi was captured when his submarine Gondar was sunk then shipped to India as a POW. The book is mainly concerned with his escape to Portuguese territory. |
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| 3962 | Japanese Aircraft Carriers and Destroyers (Navies of the Second World War. 152p., illus. London: Macdonald, 1964. ISBN: 0356014762.
One of the series of small standard guides, giving technical details by class. |
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