Derek Law's Bibliography

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ID	Description	Categories
4103	EVANS, Alun. Brassey's Guide to War Films. 256p., illus., index. New York: Brassey's, 2000. ISBN: 1574882635. An alphabetical listing of 3,000 films from Ancient Greece to Desert Storm, with date, director, original book, actors, and description.	Art and Poetry	view
4104	FOWLER, Gene. The Jervis Bay Goes Down. 24p. New York: Random House, 1941. An epic poem accompanied by the original report of the action from the New York Tribune. First read on radio by Ronald Coleman.	Art and Poetry	view
4105	GREENWELL, Kenneth. Arctic Convoy: A Saga of the Sea. 25p. Durham: Durham County Advertiser, 1943. A deservedly little-known poem by a Merchant Navy Officer. It was written between watches on the way to Murmansk. His ship, the Goulistan, was lost with all hands on the return voyage.	Art and Poetry	view
4106	HARRISSON, J. A. B., & GALSWORTHY, H. J. P A D Or Minesweeper Nonsense Verses. 55p., illus. Winchester: Warren & Son, 1944. An anthology of exchanges of signals in verse between two motor minesweepers on the English South Coast in the days leading up to the Normandy invasion. PAD was a warning at the start of a signal that because of its length a signal pad would be required to take it down.	Art and Poetry	view
4107	HAWORTH, Jennifer. The Art of War: New Zealand War Artists in the Field 1939-1945. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2007. ISBN: 187739324X. Biographies of the artists and a rich selection of their works in colour. Focuses on the army, but has some naval interest	Art and Poetry	view
4108	HICKS, J. S. Salvoes from a Stone Frigate: Drawings and Verses by Major J. S. Hicks (Royal Marines). 47p., illus. London: Methuen, 1946. Good line drawings and derivative poems describing life ashore.	Art and Poetry	view
4109	JARMAN, Charles. With the Merchant Navy. 17p., illus. London: Tuck, [1944]. A series of war paintings of the merchant fleet by Frank H. Mason, with an accompanying text.	Art and Poetry	view
4110	KING, Cecil. Rule Britannia. 280p., illus., index. London: Studio Publications, 1941. A history of the important naval events of the war to date, relating them to parallel incidents of the past. Largely illustrated with paintings by members of the Society of Marine Artists.	Art and Poetry	view
4111	LINDSAY, Jack. Into Action: The Battle of Dieppe. 60p. London: Dakers, 1942. A long narrative poem.	Art and Poetry	view
4112	MCCORMICK, Ken, & PERRY, Hamilton Darby. Images of War: The Artist's Vision of World War II. xvi, 453p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Orion, 1990. ISBN: 0517570653. Represents the work of over 200 artists from a dozen countries. Naval affairs are well-represented. The book is arranged chronologically and is interspersed with snippets of letters, reports, and anecdotes. Excellent colour reproductions.	Art and Poetry	view
4113	MACDONALD, Grant. Sailors. v, 153p., illus. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1945. Portraits of the men of the RCN at work.	Art and Poetry	view
4114	MILES, Peter. A Gift of Observation. 87p., illus. London: Buckland, 1988. ISBN: 0721207944. About 50 contemporary watercolours. Miles served on Newcastle on the Northern Patrol, at Norway, at Plymouth, and in the Mediterranean, then at the end of 1940 moved to the destroyer Versatile running East Coast convoys. In early 1942 he was appointed to the submarine Clyde in the Mediterranean. After a long refit in the US she operated in the Far East. In mid-1945 he took command of Volatile in the training flotilla at Rothesay. The pictures vividly illustrate all of his activities.	Art and Poetry	view
4115	MILNE, Gilbert A. HMCS. 141p., illus. Toronto: T. Allen, 1960. One photographer's impressions of the RCN in WWII.	Art and Poetry	view
4116	PRATT, E. J. Behind the Log. xiv, 47p., illus. Toronto: Macmillan, 1947. A narrative poem of the RCN escort of convoy SC42.	Art and Poetry	view
4117	ROBERTSON, Heather. A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War. 240p., illus. Ottawa: Lorimer, 1977. ISBN: 0888621442. Catalogue of an exhibition with a good representative selection of art covering the war at sea.	Art and Poetry	view
4118	ROSS, Alan. Colours of War: War Art, 1939–45. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cape, 1983. ISBN: 0224020382. An illustrated review of the work of the official war artists, many with naval relevance.	Art and Poetry	view
4119	ROSS, Alan. Open Sea. 63p. London: London Magazine Editions, 1975. ISBN: 0904388042. The first full collection of his war poems, including a long episodic poem on convoy JW51B and the Battle of the Barents Sea. The author served mainly in destroyers in the Arctic and North Sea and this is reflected in the subjects of the poems.	Art and Poetry	view
4120	STUART, Eve. Sheet-Anchor. [ii], 44p. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1944. A book of poems inspired by her husband, who was a Naval Officer who died on duty at sea in the summer of 1940. He died of septic endocarditus,the effect of unceasing strain and an occupational disease common among Captains of ships in war-time. There is a long biographical introduction by his friend Eric Linklater.	Art and Poetry	view
4121	THWAITES, Michael. The Jervis Bay and Other Poems. viii, 59p. London: Putnam, 1943. A miscellaneous collection of poetry by a prizewinning poet serving as an RNVR Lieutenant.	Art and Poetry	view
4122	WATT, Frederick B. Who Dare to Live. 61p. London: Macmillan, 1943. Narrative verse on the merchant service in convoy.	Art and Poetry	view

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