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| 4083 | LUCAS, Laddie. Out of the Blue: The Role of Luck in Air Warfare 1917–1966. 317p., index. London: Hutchinson, 1985. ISBN: 009162410X.
A whole series of tales and anecdotes, mainly from WWII. Several have FAA or Coastal Command relevance and there is a long analysis of the Channel Dash. |
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| 4084 | MACDONNELL, J. E. Broadsides! 162p. Sydney: Horwitz, 1962.
A set of tales of the war at sea, written for the popular market. |
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| 4085 | MACDONNELL, James E. Valiant Occasions. [x], 262p. London: Constable, 1952.
Some 19 tales of the war at sea, mainly describing the RAN but with some tales such as the Bismarck hunt included to ensure British sales. A mixture of popularisation and technical fact, all were originally published individually in the Sydney Bulletin. |
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| 4086 | MacDOUGALL, Ian. Voices From War And Some Labour Struggles: Personal Recollections of War in Our Century by Scottish Men and Women. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1995. ISBN: 1873644450.
Some thirty oral reminiscences collected over three decades from stories of war in the Trenches to war in the Pacific with a due quota of naval tales. |
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| 4087 | MASTERSON, Daniel M. Naval History: The Sixth Symposium of the US Naval Academy. xv, 358p., bibliog. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1987. ISBN: 0842022783.
These collected papers from the 1983 conference include material on espionage and Allied shipping in Latin America, Anglo-American diplomacy and the French Force X interned at Alexandria, and a brief memoir from a US naval communications expert serving on Quickmatch with TF57 in 1945. |
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| 4088 | MICHIE, Allan A., & GRAEBNER, Walter. Lights of Freedom. 190, [4]p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1941.
Really a new version of Their Finest Hour (below). This volume includes items on the raids on Spitsbergen and the Lofotens. |
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| 4089 | MICHIE, Allan A., & GRAEBNER, Walter. Their Finest Hour: The War in the First Person. 182, [2]p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin, 1940; New York: Harcourt, 1941.
Personal tales reprinted from Life magazine. They include the sinking of the Scotstoun, impressions of an Atlantic convoy and a successful North Sea patrol by the submarine Sturgeon. |
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| 4090 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Monsarrat at Sea. [iv], 342p. London: Cassell; New York: Morrow, 1975. ISBN: 0304296066.
His collected writings about the sea, except The Cruel Sea itself. Includes an article on the sinking of the Lancastria, and extracts from his autobiography covering his service in Campanula. |
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| 4091 | OLSSON, Carl. From Hell to Breakfast. 133, [2]p., illus. London: Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1943.
The author records servicemen's tales of particular actions. These include the raid on St Nazaire, a successful submarine patrol, air-sea rescue, the sinking of Dorsetshire, a convoy conference, and a Coastal Command patrol in the Bay of Biscay. |
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| 4092 | ROGERS, Stanley. Hazards of War. 238p., illus. London: Harrap, 1944.
Heroic deeds of the war, some in the first person and covering both US and British events. These include the Commando raid on Rommel's HQ, St. Nazaire, the Altmark incident, Orzel's escape, escapes from Java, and the tales of various survivors of merchant sinkings who endured on rafts or boats for many days. |
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| 4093 | SMITHIES, Edward, & BRUCE, Colin John. War at Sea. xi, 206p., illus. London: Constable, 1992. ISBN: 0094715904.
Smithies collected oral history up to the time of his death. This selection of reminiscences shows how war touched everyone involved in the war at sea from regulars to dockyard hands. |
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| 4094 | STERN, Michael. Into the Jaws of Death. 237p. New York: National Travel Club, 1944.
An anthology of tales from US sources. They include the sinking of a US troop transport in mid-Atlantic, the survival of a seaman on a raft for 46 days, and the Salerno invasion. |
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| 4095 | WINTON, John. The War at Sea 1939–1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience Selected and Edited by John Winton (Freedom's Battle, vol. 1). xx, 416p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hutchinson; New York: Morrow, 1967.
This chronologically arranged collection is perhaps the best of the anthologies on the war at sea. The set comprises three volumes, one each for land, sea, and air. |
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| 4096 | Camera at Sea, 1939–45. Edited and produced by the Staff of "Warship." 192p., illus. Greenwich: Conway; Annapolis: NIP, 1978. ISBN: 0851771246.
A collection of photographs arranged thematically, which powerfully recreates the war at sea. |
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| 4097 | The Navy at War: Paintings and Drawings by Combat Artists. 160p., illus. New York: Morrow, 1943.
A collection of paintings and drawings by Navy Combat Artists of the men of the USN in action in all theaters of war. |
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| 4098 | Spencer in the Shipyard: Paintings and Drawings by Stanley Spencer and Photographs by Cecil Beaton from the Imperial War Museum. [28p]., illus. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981. ISBN: 0728702770.
A traveling exhibition catalogue for Spencer's important works as a war artist in the shipyards of the Clyde. |
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| 4099 | War Pictures by British Artists: No.1, War at Sea, with an Introduction by Sir Herbert Richmond. 64p., illus. London: OUP, 1942.
Reproductions of pictures by official war artists along with some brief commentary. |
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| 4100 | BROOK-HART, Denys. 20th Century Marine Painting. 381p., illus., index. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 1981. ISBN: 0902028901.
A general guide with over 250 illustrations and biographical notes, which includes a section on the war artists. |
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| 4101 | COADE, Jessie. Messdeck News: Collected Verse of Messdeck Annie, Halifax, 1939–1945. 72p., [tipped in glossary on endcover], illus. Charlottetown: Ragweed, 1985. ISBN: 0920304435.
Poems by sailors stationed in Halifax, collected and originally published in the Messdeck Annie column of the Halifax Mail. |
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| 4102 | DIXON, Langford. When Laughter Put to Sea. 52p., illus. Toronto: Langmar Studio, 1968.
A collection of poetry and verse from the RCN's Atlantic War. |
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