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| 402 | MILNER, Marc. North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys. xxiii, 328p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. ISBN: 0802025447.
An excellent history, much concerned with the latter part of 1942, when the RCN was in crisis. |
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| 403 | NAISAWALD, L. VanLoan. In Some Foreign Field: The Story of Four British Graves on the Outer Banks. xiii, 82p., illus. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1972. ISBN: 0910244650. The British anti-submarine trawler Bedfordshire was sunk with all hands off the North Carolina coast by U-558, while on loan to the USN. A few bodies came ashore and the history and tragedy of the trawler and her crew and the cemetery in which they lie is described. Reprinted by the University of North Carolina Press in 1997, ISBN: 0865262721. |
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| 404 | NEARY, Steve. The Enemy on our Doorstep: The German Attacks at Bell Island, Newfoundland 1942. 140p., illus. St. John's: Jesperson, 1994. ISBN: 0921692587.
Describes daring attacks by U 513 and U 518 on the iron ore terminal anchorage on 5 September and 2 November, 1942. |
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| 405 | POWELL, James R. & FLANDERS, Alan B. Wolf at the Door: The World War II Antisubmarine Battle for Hampton Roads, Virginia. xii, 176p., bibliog., illus., index. Richmond, VA: Brandylane, 2003. ISBN: 1883911575.
Tells the story of the defence of the Fifth Naval District and refutes claims that Chesapeake Bay was penetrated. Concentrates on the battles of 1942. |
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| 406 | SHOGAN, Robert. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. 320p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Scribner, 1995. ISBN: 0689121601.
"An uncompromising account of the broken promises, slippery evasions, and illegal decisions which impelled America inexorably into World War II". |
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| 407 | STETTINIUS, Edward R. Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory. xv, 358p., illus., index. New York: Macmillan, 1944.
The administrator of the programme describes the creation and course of the "arsenal of democracy." |
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| 408 | TAYLOR, Theodore. Fire on the Beaches. 248p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Norton, 1958.
A history of the development of convoy and patrol operations against U-boats on the East Coast of the United States. |
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| 409 | THOMPSON, Lawrance. The Navy Hunts the CGR 3070. x, 150p., illus. New York: Doubleday, 1944.
In December 1942, the requisitioned yacht Zaida was lost for 21 days in a storm and there was an enormous hunt for her up and down the Atlantic seaboard. |
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| 410 | WIGGINS, Melanie. Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats 1942-1943. xiii, 265p., bibliog., illus., index. College Station: Texas A&M, 1995. ISBN: 0890966486.
A good account of how the war stretched into the Gulf of Mexico, where the U-boats wreaked terrible havoc. |
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| 411 | WOODMAN, Richard. The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945.xv, 781p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Murray, 2004. ISBN: 0719564034.
Views the battle from the perspective of the merchant navy. An excellent account. |
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| 412 | WOON, Basil. Atlantic Front: The Merchant Navy in the War.
xii, 323p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Davies, 1941. A pot-pourri of fact, personal experience, and lurid rewriting of official accounts describing the nature, importance, and course of the Battle of the Atlantic. |
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| 413 | ZBYSZEWSKI, Karol. The Fight for Narvik: Impressions of the Polish Campaign in Norway. ix, 30p. London: Drummond, 1940.
Polish Troops were an important component of the Allied Forces. Little naval coverage. |
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| 414 | BALLANTYNE, Iain. Killing the Bismarck. 304p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2010. ISBN: 1844159833.
A strong well written account. |
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| 415 | BERCUSON, David J. & HERWIG, Holger W. The Destruction of the Bismarck. [xiv], 385p., bibliog., illus., index. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2001. ISBN: 1585673978.
A fresh account of an old topic using newly declassified files. |
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| 416 | BERTHOLD, Will. The Sinking of the Bismarck. vii, 191p., illus. London: Longmans Green, 1958.
An imaginative German account of the ship's last cruise. |
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| 417 | BRENNAND, Frank. Sink the Bismarck! 160p., bibliog., illus. London: Landsborough, 1960.
A paperback giving a British view of the Bismarck's last voyage. |
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| 418 | CROSSLEY, Jim. Bismarck: the Epic Chase. vi, 170p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010. ISBN: 1848842503.
Claims to to reveal the full extent of the capabilities of both British and German Radar and the significance of British ULTRA signal intercepts in the hunt. |
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| 419 | FORESTER, C. S. Hunting the Bismarck. 110p., illus. London: Joseph; Boston: Little Brown, 1959.
A dramatised account of the real events, by a leading novelist of the sea. US title: The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck. |
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| 420 | GRENFELL, Russell. The Bismarck Episode. 219p., illus., index. London: Faber, 1948; New York: Macmillan, 1949.
One of the earliest, but still one of the best accounts of the events which surrounded the Bismarck's final sortie. A second edition was published in 1964. |
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| 421 | KEMP, Paul. Bismarck and Hood: Great Naval Adversaries. [64]p., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1991. ISBN: 1854090992.
A solid but routine retelling of the tale. |
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