Derek Law's Bibliography

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382	CHEWNING, Alpheus J. The Approaching Storm: U-Boats off the Virginia Coast during World War II. xvii, 171p., bibliog., illus. Lively, Va.: Brandylane, 1994. ISBN: 0962763594. A lovingly assembled collection of facts and pictures on the battles and losses at the mouth of the Chesapeake.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
383	CURTIS, Charles P. John Stanley Parker, Lieutenant RNVR: Killed in Action October 18, 1941 on HMS Broadwater. 9p. Boston: Merrymount Press, [n.d.]. A tribute to a 50-year-old American who forced his way into the RN, but died in the North Atlantic. He was the first American to be killed on active service with the RN in WWII.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
384	EDWARDS, Bernard. The Wolf Packs Gather: Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940. 208p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011. ISBN: 9781848846241. Tells the story of how the capture of City of Baghdad's codebooks by the raider Atlantis led to the destruction of four convoys in the autumn of 1940.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
385	FARAGO, Ladislas. The Tenth Fleet. 366p., bibliog., index. New York: Obolensky, 1962. The Tenth Fleet was the US Navy anti submarine warfare think-tank and this book records its part in the Battle of the Atlantic.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
386	FERNALD, John. Destroyer from America. Illustrated by John Worsley. 127p., illus. London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Macmillan, 1942. The dramatised story of Newmarket, a Town Class destroyer thinly disguised as "HMS Porchester." This allows the author to give his (rose-coloured) view of the war in the Atlantic without any great need for accuracy or censorship. Based on personal experience.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
387	GANDER, Leonard M. Atlantic Battle: A Personal Narrative. 95p. London: Hutchinson, [1941]. A war correspondent's account of a 2,000-mile trip in a pre-war destroyer acting as an Atlantic convoy escort in the spring of 1941.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
388	GANNON, Michael. Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks along the American Coast in World War II. xxii, 490p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. ISBN: 0060161558. The author follows the career of U 123 in the assault on the American East Coast in order to analyse how the U-boat war was conducted.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
389	GOODHART, Philip. Fifty Ships that Saved the World: The Foundation of the Anglo-American Alliance. xi, 267p., index. London: Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, 1965. Examines the diplomatic background to the Lend-Lease agreement, which brought 50 badly needed American destroyers to join the Royal and Royal Canadian Navies as the Town class. A 25-page chapter is devoted to their wartime career.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
390	GREENFIELD, Nathan M. The Battle of the St Lawrence: The Second World War in Canada. xiv, 286p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN: 0006394507. A popular account of the battles in Canadian waters which took over 300 Canadian lives.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
391	HADLEY, Michael L. U-Boats against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters. xxv, 360p., bibliog., illus., index. Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queens University Press; Annapolis: NIP, 1985. ISBN: 1557508879. A good account based on operational records and the contemporary press, which not only records the attacks and responses, but also sets them in a political context.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
392	HICKAM, Homer H. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942. xvi, 367p., illus. Annapolis: NIP, 1989. The first "Happy Time" when U-boats savaged shipping.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
393	HOCHSTUHL, William C. German U-Boat 156 Brought War to Aruba February 16, 1942. 40p., illus. Aruba: Public Relations Dept., Lago Oil & Transport Co., Ltd., 1962. A well-documented account of the U 156 attack on the refinery and lake tankers in Aruba on 16 February 1942. It includes pictures of the crew, personal memories of the lone survivor, log book of the attack, and the lake tankers hit. Reprinted by the Aruba Scholarship Foundation in 2002, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the attack, with a new introduction and postscript and a translation of the relevant part of the U-boat logbook.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined Kriegsmarine: U-Boats	view
394	HOWARTH, David. The Sledge Patrol. 255p., illus. London: Collins; New York: Macmillan, 1957. The tale of a short-lived German weather station on the Greenland coast and of the authorities' moves to suppress it. Published serially in the Saturday Evening Post as "Secrets of the Unknown War."	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
395	HOYT, Edwin P. U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America. ix, 278p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Stein & Day, 1978. ISBN: 0812881532. Covers the period January-July 1942 and the autumn of 1943 when the U-boats prowled freely off the American East Coast. "Shows the American High Command at its worst.".	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
396	INGRAHAM, Reg. First Fleet: The Story of the US Coastguard at War. 310p., illus. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944. The Coast Guard served in the Pacific and the Atlantic and it is their connection with the RN in the latter that is of interest.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
397	KELSHALL, Gaylord, T. M. The U-Boat War in the Caribbean. xxii, 519p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1994. ISBN: 1557504520. Originally published in 1988 in 1000 copies by Paria Publishing in Trinidad, this facsimile reprint by the Naval Institute Press, with a new foreword, deservedly brings an excellent book on a neglected battlefield to a wider audience.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
398	KIMBALL, Warren F. The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 1939-1941. ix, 281p., bibliog., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1969. ISBN: 0801810175 A background book. The destroyers-for-bases deal was only a part of the massive American aid to the Allies. This book charts the internal American political struggle to pass the bill which was an inexorable step toward war.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
399	LANGER, William L., & GLEASON, S. Everett. The Undeclared War, 1940-1941 (The World Crisis and American Foreign Policy). xvi, 963p., bibliog., index. New York: Harper, 1953. A very detailed political and strategic overview of the American position.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
400	LEE, William B. V. A Heavy Harvest: German Submarine Operations in the Gulf of Mexico in World War II. Ridgeland, Miss.: Alveley, 1994. U-boats mounted a successful assault in the gulf.	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view
401	LIVERSIDGE, Douglas. The Third Front: The Strange Story of the Secret War in the Arctic. 219p., illus. London: Souvenir, 1960. The small but bitter war fought out in the Arctic Circle, where tiny groups of men existed in atrocious conditions while trying to predict the weather which would affect the movement of larger forces and to prevent the enemy from doing the same. A revised edition was published by Severn House in 1976. (ISBN: 0727801317).	The Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic Battle Joined	view

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