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| 4344 | BRUNING, John. Battle for the North Atlantic: The Strategic Naval Campaign that Won World War II in Europe. 300p., bibliog., illus., index. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith, 2013. ISBN: 0760339910. An illustrated introduction to the long running campaign. |
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| 4345 | BURKETT, Molly. Once Upon A Wartime VI. 96p., illus. Grantham: Barny Books, 1998. ISBN: 0948204699. Wartime recollections. Pat Kingsmill was a FAA pilot and describes being shot down during the Channel Dash. Another chapter describes the experience of a merchant seaman sunk in convoy HX229. |
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| 4346 | BURKETT, Molly & STREET, Robert. Once Upon A Wartime X. 96p., illus. Grantham: Barny Books, 2001. ISBN: 1903172144. A small set of oral recollections. Only one is naval. Douglas Martin joined up in mid-1942 and after radar training was posted to Allynback [sic – presumably Alynbank] in Cardiff in mid-1943. He took part in HUSKY and when she decommissioned he was sent to Serapis and the Russian convoys. She moved south for D-Day. He then transferred to Zest in mid-1945. |
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| 4347 | BURT, R. A. British Battleships 1919-1939. 414p., bibliog., illus, index. London: Weidenfeld Military, 1993. ISBN: 1854090682. Covering British warships during the interwar years, this book examines what was learnt during World War I and the new ideas put forward to produce seminal battleship designs. All classes' design and construction are thoroughly described as well as individual ship's histories. A revised edition entitled British Battleships 1919-1945 was published by Seaforth in 2012 (ISBN: 1848321309). |
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| 4348 | BUXTON, Ian. Swan Hunter Built Warships. 128p., illus. Liskeard: Maritime Books, 2007. ISBN: 1904459293. A largely photographic record of this important company. |
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| 4349 | CARROLL, Francis M. Athenia Torpedoed. 232p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2013; Annapolis, NIP, 2012. ISBN: 9781781591710. An up to date retelling which focuses on the survivors and their tales. |
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| 4351 | CARRUTHERS, Bob. The U-Boat War in the Atlantic. 3 vols., illus. Stratford: Archive Media Publishing, 2012. ISBN: 178158060X (Vol. 1); 1781580618 (Vol. 2); 1781580596 (Vol. 3). Told from the German perspective and based on German archives and primary sources. |
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| 4352 | CARTON de WIART, Adrian. Happy Odyssey: The Memoirs of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO. 287p., illus., index. London: Cape, 1950. A fascinating life spanning both world wars. In WW2 he served in Poland, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. Has a good section on the Norwegian campaign. |
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| 4353 | CHAPMAN, A. J. The War of the Motor Gun Boats: One Man’s Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces, 1943-1945. 176p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 1783462248. Tony Chapman was born in Southampton in 1924 and joined up as soon as he could. Within hours of being posted to his first Motor Gun Boat as a Telegraphist, he was involved in an epic Coastal Forces engagement when his flotilla took on a force of thirty E-boats. His flotilla operated in the Mediterranean and Aegean where the MGBs played a key role. Daily life is vividly described. They operated in the Levant and on combined operations in the Aegean with the Greek Sacred Regiment of Commandos. The culmination of their efforts was when his boat, ML838, took the surrender of the Island of Kos in 1945. |
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| 4354 | CLARK, Chris. From Hitler’s U-Boats to Khruschev’s Spyflights. 288p., illus. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2013. ISBN: 9781781590546. Tom Clark joined the RAF in June 1939 and trained as an Air Gunner and joined a flying boat Squadron based at Sullom Voe. He served on after the war. |
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| 4355 | COOPER, W. H. Life in the Fleet Air Arm 1944-1947.80p., illus. [n.p., author, n.d.]. Reminiscences of a Ldg.Hand/PO fitter who served initially in the Orkneys, then sailed to New York in the Queen Mary where he awaited draft before moving to Brunswick, Maine for the formation of 1851 Squadron. The squadron embarked in Thane for passage to UK and disembarked in Belfast before Thane was torpedoed in the approaches to the Clyde. The author was on board and describes this incident. The squadron re-embarked in Venerable and sailed for the war in the Far East as part of the 11th Carrier Group. Venerable arrived too late to participate in the war before VJ-day but was involved in mopping-up operations in Hong Kong. |
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| 4356 | COSH, Robert. Inside and Out: My Experiences in the Royal Navy (1939-46) and HM Prison Service (1948-81). Bognor Regis: Woodfield, 2005. ISBN: 190395391X. His wartime experiences included surviving PEDESTAL, in the course of which his ship Eagle was torpedoed and sunk. He served with both 801 and 809 Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm and had a lively war in the UK, Egypt and the Mediterranean before his eventual demobilisation in 1946. |
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| 4357 | COX, Jeffrey R. Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II. 368p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Osprey, 2014. ISBN: 1780967268. A good modern account which looks at all the Allies, is critical of MacArthur and supportive of Doorman. |
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| 4358 | CROSS, Robert F. Shepherds of the Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II. xxi, 295p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781591141440. Based on personal tales, this is a history of the workhorse DEs which played an influential role both in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as well as the Pacific. |
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| 4359 | CROSS, Robert F. Shepherds of the Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II. xxi, 295p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781591141440. Based on personal tales, this is a history of the workhorse DEs which played an influential role both in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as well as the Pacific. |
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| 4360 | CROSS, Robert F. Shepherds of the Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II. xxi, 295p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781591141440. Based on personal tales, this is a history of the workhorse DEs which played an influential role both in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as well as the Pacific. |
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| 4361 | CROSSLEY, Jim. Monitors of the Royal Navy: How the Fleet Brought the Great Guns to Bear. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 1781590516. Studies their history, design and effectiveness. |
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| 4362 | CULL, Brian. Gladiator Ace: Bill “Cherry” Vale, the RAF’s Forgotten Ace. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Yeovil: Haynes, 2010.ISBN: 9781844256570. Vale fought in North Africa, Greece and Crete and had thirty claimed kills. This sympathetic biography has peripheral material on naval and FAA involvement in these campaigns. |
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| 4363 | CURTIS, Lettice. The Forgotten Pilots: A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary 1939-45. xv, 337p., illus. Henley-on-Thames: Foulis, 1971. ISBN: 0854291237. A good history of the organisation that delivered aircraft to the RAF and FAA. A second edition was published by E. L. Curtis in 1982. |
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| 4364 | DAVIES, J. D. Britannia’s Dragon: A Naval History of Wales.288p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: History Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780752470139. An account of a little explored area with good coverage of WW2 ranging from the defence of Wales to the service of Welshmen in the Royal Navy. |
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