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| 4123 | WELLESLEY, Gordon. The Silver Fleet: The Story of the Film Put into Narrative. 32p., illus. London: Netherlands Government Information Bureau, 1943.
The film starred Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers in a tale of resistance by Dutch shipyard workers who sabotage U-boats under construction. |
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| 4124 | WINTON, John. Hands to Action Stations! Naval Poetry and Verse from World War Two. 143p., bibliog., illus. Denbigh: Bluejacket Books, 1980. ISBN: 0907001009.
A mixed bag of the famous and the anonymous, mainly serving naval personnel, with illustrations by Captain Jack Broome. |
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| 4125 | WRIGHT, Paul. Hearts of Steel: The Warship Paintings of Paul Wright. 136p., bibliog., illus. Wellington: Halstar, 2009. ISBN: 9781906690052.
A selection of paintings of twentieth century warships. |
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| 4126 | BROWN, Cecil. From Suez to Singapore. xl, 545p., index. New York: Random House, 1942.
A year in the life of an American CBS war correspondent, from April 1941 until March 1942. Brown was onboard Repulse when she was sunk and vividly describes the action. He also had brief contact with the Mediterranean Fleet. |
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| 4127 | CLARK, Russell S. An End to Tears. 180p., illus. Sydney: Huston, [1946].
A war correspondent's account of the liberation of Hong Kong and of the experiences of some of the survivors in Japanese hands. |
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| 4128 | COLLIER, Richard. The Warcos: The War Correspondents of World War Two. x, 230p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. ISBN: 0297795341.
A good background history describing the experiences of this intrepid band. |
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| 4129 | DIVINE, A. D. The Road to Tunis. 256p., illus. London: Collins; New York: Macmillan, 1944.
A war report of the fight for North Africa from the Torch landings to the German surrender. He spent some time with the Royal Navy. |
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| 4130 | GANDER, Leonard M. Long Road to Leros. 215p., illus. London: Macdonald, [1945].
Memoirs of a war correspondent who reported on the war from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and the Dodecanese. |
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| 4131 | HODSON, James Lansdale. The Sea and the Land: Being Some Account of Journeys, Meetings, and What Was Said to Me in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Holland Between March 1943 and May 1945. 370p. London: Gollancz, 1945.
General impressions of the war, some of which cover the war at sea. |
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| 4132 | HOPE, S. Give Me the Sea. 192p., illus., index. London: Hale, 1959.
Mainly concerned with WWI, there is a lengthy account of service as a war correspondent in WWII. |
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| 4133 | JOHNSTON, George H. New Guinea Diary. 253p. London: Gollancz, 1943.
A newspaper reporter accredited to the Australian armed forces gives his impressions of 1942, mainly in New Guinea. He spent some time with the RAN. |
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| 4134 | KNOX, Collie. Atlantic Battle. vii, 104p., illus. London: Methuen, 1941.
A reporter's impressions of the Battle of the Atlantic. At least three editions were published. |
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| 4135 | McDOUGALL, William H. Six Bells Off Java: A Narrative of One Man's Private Miracle. viii, 222p., index. New York: Scribner's, 1948.
An American newspaperman's tale of the fall of the East. After a hazardous escape from Shanghai, he went to Java. As the Japanese advanced he escaped in the freighter Poelau Bras, was sunk, rescued, then captured and imprisoned. |
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| 4136 | McKIE, Ronald. Echoes from Forgotten Wars. 269p., illus. Sydney: Collins, 1980. ISBN: 0002164434.
Memoirs of a war correspondent with limited mention of naval affairs. |
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| 4137 | McMILLAN, Richard. Mediterranean Assignment. x, 332p. New York: Doubleday, 1943.
A United Press correspondent's view of the Mediterranean war from November 1940 to the clearing of Africa in 1943. |
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| 4138 | NIXON, John. Front Line of Freedom. 64p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1942].
The author was the first official newspaper "eyewitness" appointed to the RN. He was on the Prince of Wales when the Hood was sunk and records this action along with a miscellany of short pieces on the life and work of the Navy. |
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| 4139 | RASMUSSEN, Albert H. Return to the Sea. vii, 207p., illus. London: Constable, 1956.
He was an expatriate Norwegian and ex–seaman turned BBC war correspondent. This volume of autobiography consists largely of an account of an Atlantic round trip, outwards on a Norwegian tanker and home on Penelope, fresh from a refit in the USA. |
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| 4140 | REYNOLDS, Quentin. Convoy. xiii, 303p. New York: Random House, 1942.
The diary of a slow Atlantic convoy. Reynolds was a well-known war correspondent. During the trip he ruminates on some of his more hectic assignments. |
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| 4141 | RIESS, Curt. They Were There: The Story of World War II and How It Came About by America's Foremost Correspondents. xliii, 670p., bibliog., index. New York: Putnam, 1944.
The best of war reporting covers all theaters and events up to the end of 1943. |
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| 4142 | SHAW, Frank H. Seas of Memory. 248p. London: Oldbourne, 1958.
The autobiography of a retired seaman turned journalist and novelist. Includes some details of his wartime travels when observing the Navy in action. |
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